Memoirs of Paulina (Widder) Fábry, born in Boldogkőváralja, Hungary, 1880, regarding her experiences in Budapest

Memoirs of Paulina (Widder) Fábry, born in Boldogkőváralja, Hungary, 1880, regarding her experiences in Budapest 

Memoirs of Paulina (Widder) Fábry, born in Boldogkőváralja, Hungary, 1880, regarding her experiences in Budapest 

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Memoirs of Paulina (Widder) Fábry, born in Boldogkőváralja, Hungary, 1880, regarding her experiences in Budapest Life in Budapest during the German occupation, 19 March 1944; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge, ban on going out into the streets excepting for certain hours and the dismissal of servants from Jewish families; transfer of valuables to a non-Jewish woman and eviction from her home, 28 June 1944; transfer to a marked house (marked with a Jewish star) on Aréna Street, house no. 108; receiving a letter from her mother, June 1944; notification by her mother of her deportation together with the family of her brother, Imre, from Balatonfüred to Tapolca, from there to Zalaegerszeg and from there to an unknown destination; rise to power of the Arrow Cross Party, 15 October 1944; efforts by the Widder family to obtain various protective passports from the Swiss and Swedish embassies; capture by Arrow Cross members together with a large group of people; deportation to a marked house on Abonyi Street, no. 8; life in the marked house; deportation to a camp in a brick factory; visit by Swiss Embassy members in the camp; transfer to a protected house on Hollán street, no. 6; order by the authorities of transfer to the ghetto, 20 November 1944; additional attempt by Paulina to receive a protective passport from the Swiss Embassy; transfer to a marked house on Légrády Károly Street, no. 30; life in an empty house whose occupants had been deported to the Budapest Ghetto; life during air-raids; attempts to evict the Jews from the house by Arrow Cross Party members, January 1945; entry of a Red Army soldier to the building and announcement of their liberation, on the night between 15-16 of January 1945. Emigration to the United States. Note: Paulina died, November 1955.