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This picture was taken in America in the 1940s. It shows my father's sister Aunt Eszti and her husband, Uncle Simon Silber.
They had three sons, Adolf, Sandor and Jeno. My father's sister got to the USA in that one of her sons-they had emigrated long before the war - had Aunt Eszter and Uncle Simon taken to New York onboard the last ship in 1939. But it was too late then, they couldn't fit in there. Earlier they had been farmers in Nyirpazony, and when they got older they came to our place to Nyiregyhaza.
We lived in the same house. They were already old when they left, so in America they couldn't work anymore. While they lived here their children from America helped them, and they told them that here was this Hitler, and that they wouldn't be able to help them later. They lived then in Brooklyn, but they struggled, because an old tree cannot be replanted? The picture was taken 5-6 years after their emigration in New York, in Brooklyn. They died soon after 1945 when they were around 70 years old.
I kept in touch with Aunt Eszter's grandchildren. They were here, too. Sandor's daughter works as a medical researcher, as far as I know. Jeno has a son. Helen and Irving are Adolf's children. Helen died, but Irving still lives. Helen was of my age, Irving is three or four years younger. Irving lives in Cleveland, of course he also has grandchildren, just like I do.
