Codice albumGBB-F-006362

Image IDGBB-F-006362-0000

1910, PRAGUE, BOHEMIA: The Bohemian conjoined twins sisters JOSEFA and ROSA BLAZEK (1878-1922)with son FRANZEL (FRANZL or FRANZ, born from Rosa). The child was illigimate why the father offered at time to marry the mother Rosa but the judge would not permit it, called it" bigamy". After few years the father dead in Great War fighting in the Austrian army (was a carpenter in a was works named Dvorak). But after the death of Blazeck Twin in Chicago for pneumonia, the day 30 march 1922, the Doctor radiographer George W. Brady, refuse the parentage of 11 years old child why has made X-ray photo of their bodies as a improbable that either woman ever underwent childbirth. Surgeon was prepared for an immediate operation in case Josefa died but said Rosa had only one chance in a thousand to survive separation. Jess E. Rose, the American manager of Blazek sisters' wanted to be the legal guardian of child, why the estate of Blazek was estimated at 100,000. In next time the boy was gived to his uncle Franz Blazek and the estate was only 400, is unknow if the boy return in Europe or stay in USA. Rosa was the only female conjoined twin in history to bear a viable child

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