Böske Simon (1909—1970) was a Jewish Hungarian beauty queen, the first winner of the title Miss Hungary (1929) and the winner of the Miss Europe 1929 pageant, held in Paris. After her victory in Paris she was received in private audience by the French President, fêted in Vienna on her return journey to Hungary, and greeted at the railway station in Budapest by a crowd of thousands.Mark Traa, ''De mooiste van het land'' (Amsterdam, 2015), unpaginated electronic edition
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attacks and political pressure.Louise O. Vasvári
Böske Simon, Miss Hungaria and Miss Europa (1929): Beauty Pageants and Packaging Gender, Race, and National Identity in Interwar Hungary
''Hungarian Cultural Studies'', 12 (2019), pp. 193-238. On 22 December 1929 she married the textile business heir Pál Brammer, but the couple divorced in 1935. She then married Dániel Jób, artistic director of the Comedy Theatre of Budapest. The couple survived the Second World War in hiding but lived in poverty for the remainder of their lives.

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1909 births 1970 deaths Miss Europe winners Hungarian beauty pageant winners {{Europe-pageant-bio-stub