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Miss Europe 1929
February 9, 1929 L'Illustration journal
DateFebruary 7, 1929
VenueParis, France
Entrants18
DebutsDenmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Russia, Spain, Switzerland
WithdrawalsBaltic States, Czechoslovakia, Turkey
WinnerElzbieta Simon
 Hungary
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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
1st Runner-Up
  •  Poland – Władysława Kostakówna
2nd Runner-Up

Contestants

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. ^ Levenson, Alan T. (2012). The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism. John Wiley & Sons. p. 384. ISBN 9781118232934.
  2. Wallach, Kerry (2017). Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany. University of Michigan Press. p. 126. ISBN 9780472053575.

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