Young Bedrich Hecht

This is me after the war in 1946 or 1947.

The way my life continued after the war was that my mother, who'd returned, lived with me. Aunt Cilke [Cecilia] had one son return [Tibor]; they lived together, and my other aunt [Gizela], who'd lost her husband and son also lived with them.

In May of 1945 I returned, and again got a job in the fund; later I worked in agriculture as a superintendent of state property. Then came the year 1949, and they confiscated our property and house [14], and demolished the house. Later we did get things back in the restitutions [restitution: a law regarding the return of property - Editor's note], but everything had been demolished. I got a job in a sugar refinery, where I worked for 37 years.