There was a Hungarian passenger on board the Titanic

According to origo.hu, the current view is that there was neither a Hungarian survivor nor a victim in the tragedy of Titanic. The Explorer Society Foundation holds that the only Hungarian there was Dr. Arpad Lengyel, the ambulance doctor of the steamer Carpathia, which saved the passengers of the sunken ship.

However, there is a name on the passengers’ total list of Encyclopedia Titanica. Mr. Leopold Weisz, who did not survive the tragedy, is listed among the English passengers. His name (the letters ‘s’ and ‘z’ in his last name) suggests he had Hungarian roots.

Leopold Weisz was born around 1875 in Veszprém, Hungary, but he moved to England at the age of 19 to study crafts. There he married the Belgian Mathilde Francoise Pede. Soon he immigrated to Canada in 1911, and returned to the United Kingdom only to get her wife as well. Because of a coal strike they were directed from the steamer Lusitania to Titanic, origo.hu wrote.