![]() ![]() My mother asked one of the men: ?I have to dress up my boy in warm clothes? The young Hungarian fascist smiled: ?No, no, we will go just a short distance?. One night an unusually polite arrowhead group came to our house. We heard shooting every night, but it was ?normal? because there was a war and the Soviet army bombed Budapest. In December we saw that some of the neighboring houses became empty. There were about 20-25 people in one room and we slept on the floor. (After the war we were informed that man was a cruel captain.) Birkenau My mother also came to the safe house and we were together again. All the other Jews there were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. This was the first miracle for us in the brutal war. The gendarme said: ?When I will call your name you can step out from the group and I will send you back to Budapest?. So after 23 years he recognized my mom because, when he was a student, he was one of her fans. Early in her career (1921) she acted in a city, Debrecen, and that gendarme studied in the local university at that time. ?You are Manci Kalman, true? My mother?s stage name was Manci. When the tortured Jewish group arrived to the Hungarian border city of Hegyeshalom, an elegant gendarme captain stopped my mother. The distance between Budapest and the Hungarian-Austrian border approximately was 171 kilometers (103 miles). If somebody couldn?t walk the fascists shot him/her. They walked for several days on what has become known as a Death March. #Foldes tamas las vegas fullA young Arrow-Cross man pushed her into a hole full with feces and urine and guffawed. An old brickworks building was the assembly place for other Jews and several thousand people were crowded together. He ran back for us to the Star of David house and we went into the Wallenberg organized ghetto (officially it was the International Ghetto, or a Saved ghetto). My father got the opportunity to escape from the fascist gangs. In the fall of 1944 a Hungarian fascist gang, the Arrow-Cross group, occupied our house and carried off the men and women between 16-60 years old. I had the infectious disease scarlet-fever and had to stay in a dark cellar, without windows, under quarantine. Later I will explain why that job was life-saving for her. My father was a dentist, my mother was an actress. A yellow star house in Budapest (Yad Vashem) My parents could not work because the fascist government rule, the numerus nullus, forbade highly educated Jews from holding certain jobs. I developed a nervous tic because I couldn?t even bring my toys with me. ![]() The next Nazi order: we had to leave our home and move into a ?Star of David House? (also known as a yellow-star house) where we lived with three families of strangers (one family to one room). ![]() They said ?It?s a deadly day, the Nazis are here!? In two weeks all the Jews had to wear the yellow Star of David on their clothes, including the children. They gave me a few toys and hurried back to their homes. Early that morning German troops occupied our homeland. And Sunday, Mamy birthday present was the Nazi occupation of Hungary. My sixth birthday, Mawas a Monday and my parents wanted a big celebration, so they invited our relatives to come the day before, on Sunday. CURRICULUM VITAE (1944-1945) I was born March 20, 1938, in Budapest, Hungary. ![]()
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