The city where many of my father’s sculptures are in their Art Museum…
“Let the Music Play” ©Marton 2014
In 1941 about 3,400 Jews lived in Szombathely, nearly 10% of the population.
Starting in 1942, Jewish men were forced into (Hungarian) labor battalions with very few surviving the extermination (which is what it was – I just visited my 93 year old mother’s cousin in London: they were 600 to enter in 1941 with two of them coming back, my mother and her sister lost their first husbands there).
In May 1944, Jews were concentrated in the local ghetto. A few months later, between July 4 & July 6, 4228 Jews were deported from Szombathely to Auschwitz – about fifty Jews survived the Holocaust.
Bardós Alice
About the violonist Alice Bárdos who perished upon arrival in Auschwitz (and more).
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Have you written other posts about Hungary and the Shoah? You must know Imre Kertesz’ powerful novel, “Fateless.” I read it a couple of years ago and saw the excellent movie made from it while I was researching a play I was writing about a 14 Jewish boy “passing” as Aryan and working with the Jewish resistance in Budapest, 1944. I’d like to read more about your Hungarian-Jewish forebears.
The movie is excellent indeed. I was told that the first translation of Kertész’s book was not as good as the second one that came out with the title of “Fatelessness.”
I have created two collages about my father & my mother’s lives. Here are the links: https://piermarton.info/Images/ErvinMarton.png & https://piermarton.info/Images/MarthaMarton.png
And then there is this overview: https://piermarton.info/pier-marton-on-the-shoah/
I would be glad to add my two-cents in a more directed way if I can be of help – we can communicate outside this site. Be well, Corey.
Je regrette de ne pas connaitre le hongrois et de ne pas pouvoir lire le Memento 70. En tout cas, merci!