Edit Kovacs' daughter Maria Daragos

Photo of Maria, my daughter, when she was around six months old. Maria graduated from an economic high school and worked first in a ministry and later in social services. She has two sons, Tibor and Zoltan. Tibor married a Gypsy girl and became a peddler. They have one daughter, Anita, who is 10 years old. We do not really keep in touch with them. Zoltan is now 36 years old and works as a cook. He married a Bulgarian girl and they have a child, Sandor. They live with me in my flat. I am painfully conscious of the fact that everybody in my family married Gentiles, and I feel as if I were the only Jew left in the family. But I believe that it does not matter whether somebody is Jewish or Christian, all that matters is that they should be good and kind-hearted. Still, I feel proud to be a Jew, I would never deny it, and I used to go regularly to the synagogue up to quite recently. Now I am too old and frail.