Tag #116859 - Interview #102297 (Janos Dorogi)

I finished medical school in ’49, and by ‘50 I was working in the hospital in Kutvolgy as an internist.  First I worked as an internist, and then as a pediatric surgeon.  I met my wife at the university, when I held a contest as a graduate student, and where my wife was the best of course.  We got married in December of ‘50.  Unfortunately my father didn’t live to see it, but I thank my lucky stars that he at least got to know Agi.  My mother and her two sisters lived with us right away, and Agi had to give up a lot for them, but I believe we got along well with my aunts and my mother until they died.  It could be that’s why we never had any children, and why we traveled so much, and travel so much now.  Even though my wife’s family, who were as Jewish as we were, had Christmas, because one of her aunts married a Swabian, the two of us never celebrated Christmas, but we didn't celebrate Jewish holidays either. (My mother had a little prayer-book, though, and I know she went to the synagogue from time to time.) It’s hard to say, but we only felt comfortable among Jews, even though we were mostly surrounded by non-Jews at work, naturally.