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Budapest's Wax-love Saga of Kollosy and Rosika Ends
Budapest student Kollosy loved Rosika a Jewish girl and planned marriage but his Catholic parents forbade it. After Rosika married elsewhere, Kollosy preserved memory by commissioning a life like wax figure and a baby doll, while his obsession with the wax model intensified until he was confined to an asylum following the lover's death.
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Michael Sollosy
Ellasy
Kollosy
Rosika
Budapest
Kolios
Dollmaker's House
Eran
Bron
Gladn
Ela
Kellosy
Kolosy
Wees
Ivideree