Evi I have no clue why any Jew would still be living in Hungary. Of course many have left, but many have also stayed. Perhaps because Hungary is their home. Do you know what we called this homebound attitude in the ‘30s? We called it the ‘credenza complex’, meaning...

György  On June 6, 1944, all the Jews living in the area were rounded up and taken to the Szeged brick factory. Three weeks later, on July 1st, they were put in cattle cars and among them was my mother, too, who gave birth to me the following day in the cattle car....

György  On June 6, 1944, all the Jews living in the area were rounded up and taken to the Szeged brick factory. Three weeks later, on July 1st, they were put in cattle cars and among them was my mother, too, who gave birth to me the following day in the cattle car....

Uncle Imre  I was born in 1920 in a hospice hospital on American Street in Budapest. My father was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Losonc and he later rented a room from my mother’s parents in Pest, which is how they met. He was enlisted in ’14, but was...

Uncle Imre  I was born in 1920 in a hospice hospital on American Street in Budapest. My father was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Losonc and he later rented a room from my mother’s parents in Pest, which is how they met. He was enlisted in ’14, but was...