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Very quickly after that my father was taken to a camp in Backa Topolo,
and they put the whole family in the ghetto. After a short time they were
loading us into wagons headed for Bacsalmas, Hungary. My grandmother was
put in a hospital, and my mother and I took shelter in a mill where we
slept on the bare ground and I contracted an inflammation of the lungs.
Through one young soldier, to whom I gave my ring, I managed to send a
letter to my father to tell him where the family was located. My father in
turn used the first opportunity to volunteer to register and to set out in
our direction, towards the first wagon. Quickly we were transported to
Szeged and later to the Strashov camp. In the meantime, my paternal
grandmother Janka died, and Ilona, Hedi and Agica were taken to Auschwitz.
According to the story of a witness, my maternal grandmother Ilona and
little Agica were immediately selected for execution, and my aunt Hedi was
on the side that was supposed to be taken to forced labor, but little Agica
cried and was searching for her mother, so that Hedi voluntarily signed up
and moved to the side that was taken to death. My uncle Djordje returned
from forced labor in October 1945. He married for a second time. In 1946 he
and his wife, Anika Hajduska, had a son named Beni. Uncle Djordje moved
with his wife and son to Israel in 1948, where they had a daughter named
Mirijam.
From the moment that my parents and I arrived in the Strashov camp we
were no longer separated. We went from there to the work camp in Austria,
where we awaited liberation.
and they put the whole family in the ghetto. After a short time they were
loading us into wagons headed for Bacsalmas, Hungary. My grandmother was
put in a hospital, and my mother and I took shelter in a mill where we
slept on the bare ground and I contracted an inflammation of the lungs.
Through one young soldier, to whom I gave my ring, I managed to send a
letter to my father to tell him where the family was located. My father in
turn used the first opportunity to volunteer to register and to set out in
our direction, towards the first wagon. Quickly we were transported to
Szeged and later to the Strashov camp. In the meantime, my paternal
grandmother Janka died, and Ilona, Hedi and Agica were taken to Auschwitz.
According to the story of a witness, my maternal grandmother Ilona and
little Agica were immediately selected for execution, and my aunt Hedi was
on the side that was supposed to be taken to forced labor, but little Agica
cried and was searching for her mother, so that Hedi voluntarily signed up
and moved to the side that was taken to death. My uncle Djordje returned
from forced labor in October 1945. He married for a second time. In 1946 he
and his wife, Anika Hajduska, had a son named Beni. Uncle Djordje moved
with his wife and son to Israel in 1948, where they had a daughter named
Mirijam.
From the moment that my parents and I arrived in the Strashov camp we
were no longer separated. We went from there to the work camp in Austria,
where we awaited liberation.
Period
Year
1944
Location
Serbia
Interview
Judita Sendrei
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