Tag #136334 - Interview #78490 (Katalin Kallos Havas)

I had a Jewish acquaintance who had two sons. The younger one had to be seven or eight when he asked his father, ‘Tell me, dad, will people become Jewish when they get old?’ Because that’s how it is, as people get older they feel increasingly attracted back to Jewishness. I have a very good lady-friend who is Christian. Her son is a doctor and he read every book about the camps. He was very interested in the Jewish community. She told me she had to have some Jewish ancestors because her son had inherited it. Finally she found out that the mother of her father, that is, her grandmother, was Jewish. Those who were never interested before or never considered themselves Jewish somehow began to be attracted. The same happened to me. I’m still not religious, but for me my Jewish origin is growing in significance. I was raised in the Hungarian culture, my mother tongue is Hungarian, but I consider myself Jewish.