Miss Europe 1929 Explained

Miss Europe 1929 was the second annual Miss Europe pageant and the first under French journalist Maurice de Waleffe. Maurice de Waleffe also created in 1920, what in 1927 had become the Miss France pageant. Miss Hungary, Böske Simon, won the pageant title and became the first Jewish women to be crowned Miss Europe. Eighteen European girls competed.

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Europe 1929	Hungary – Elzbieta Simon
1st Runner-Up	Poland – Władysława Kostakówna
2nd Runner-Up	France – Germaine Laborde

Contestants

• Austria - Lisl Goldarbeiter^[1]
• Bulgaria - Luba Yotzoff
• Denmark - Vibeke Mogensen
• - Benny Dick
• France - Germaine Laborde
• Germany - Elisabeth Yvette Rodzyn
• Greece - Aspasie Karatja
• - Johanna Koopman
• Hungary - Elzbieta "Böske" Simon

• Ireland - Clara Russell-Stritch
• Italy - Derna Giovannini
• Luxembourg - Ketty Hipp
• Poland - Władysława Kostakówna
• Romania - Marioara Cranescu
• (In exile)- Irina Levitskaya
• Spain - Pepita Samper Bono
• Switzerland - Annie Haussel
• - Stanislava Matijević

Notes

Miss Austria, Lisl Goldarbeiter, also competed at the International Pageant of Pulchritude 1929; where she won. Misses England, France, Holland, and Luxembourg also competed, but did not place.

References

1. Book: Wallach . Kerry . Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany . 2017 . University of Michigan Press . 9780472053575 . 126 . en.