Memoirs of László Blahm, born in Pivnica, Yugoslavia, 1881, regarding his experiences and those of his family during the Holocaust period, 1941-1945

Memoirs of László Blahm, born in Pivnica, Yugoslavia, 1881, regarding his experiences and those of his family during the Holocaust period, 1941-1945 

Élményeim és szenvedéseim az 1941-1945 években a Hitler korabeli magyar fasiszta uralom idején 

Memoirs of László Blahm, born in Pivnica, Yugoslavia, 1881, regarding his experiences and those of his family during the Holocaust period, 1941-1945 

Élményeim és szenvedéseim az 1941-1945 években a Hitler korabeli magyar fasiszta uralom idején 

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Memoirs of László Blahm, born in Pivnica, Yugoslavia, 1881, regarding his experiences and those of his family during the Holocaust period, 1941-1945 Termination of studies for his sons Ottó (born 20 October 1919) and Ervin (born 26 June 1921) at Belgrade University; their transfer to Novi Sad (following the Hungarian occupation of Újvidék), February-March 1941; draft of his son, Ottó, to the Yugoslavian Army; annexation of the Délvidék county to Hungary, April 1941; return of Ottó from his military service; Hungarian gendarmerie activities against the Jews in the area; draft of the Jewish men to forced labor; life under the Hungarian regime including demands that the Jews prove that they are Hungary citizens; sending Ottó to continue his veterinary studies in Budapest, 11 September 1941; arrest of Ottó by the police and his return to Újvidék; sending his son Ervin to the family of his mother Adél, the Hirschl family in Szeged; unsuccessful efforts to obtain the release of Ottó from prison; accusation of Ottó and other young men of organizing in order to sabotage the regime; their trial and death sentence; meeting of the parents and the rest of the family with Ottó before his execution by hanging, 27 October 1941; also executed at the same time: Rudolf Grün, a refugee from Vienna and Ferenc Kardos from Becskerek; release of one non-Jewish young man; László Blahm's work as a quicklime salesman; police search for his son, Ervin, during the month of November; smuggling Ervin out of Szeged to Rákospalota; mass murder of the Jews of Temerin, 10-12 January 1942; escape of László and Adél Blahm to Adél's parents in Szeged; murder of the Jews in Újvidék by the Hungarians, 22 January 1942; draft of his son Ervin into a Hungarian Army labor battalion, October 1942; return of the family to Újvidék; their return to Szeged following the death of Adél's father; draft of Adél's nephews to forced labor, April 1943; transfer of the nephews to labor in the mines in Bor; German occupation of Hungary; yellow badge; Ervin's last leave and the last meeting with him, late March 1944; transfer of the family's apartment in Újvidék with its entire contents to a non-Jewish family; transfer of the Jews of Újvidék to Szabadka and from there to the Baja Ghetto, including László Blahm's nieces; transfer of the Jews of Szeged to the Szeged Ghetto; attempts by Jews to convert to Christianity at the last minute; transfer from the ghetto to a brick factory in Szeged; rumor regarding imminent deportation from the ghetto in two groups - one group to be chosen by Rabbi Dr. Jenő Frenkel, and said to be arriving in Switzerland (the Kasztner train), and the second group to be transferred to an unknown place; deportation of László and Adél Blahm and Adél's widowed mother, Ignácné Hirschl, from the ghetto with other Jews, June 1944; arrival at the Strasshof camp; camp life; transfer the Moosbierbaum camp, early July 1944; selection, and transfer of László and Adél Blahm to a labor camp in a chemical factory; receiving work papers; camp life; return to Strasshof, October 1944; labor in Wagram, outside the camp; camp life including relations between the Jewish inmates; death of Adél's mother in the camp, 24 December 1944; transfer to a transit camp in Strasshof, early March 1945; escape of the SS men and the Ukrainian guards in the civilian clothes of the Jews; liberation by the Red Army, 07 April 1945. Cases of rape of women by Red Army soldiers; return home by the family, 12 April 1945; reunion with his brother Artur Blahm and with Sándor Hirschl in Budapest; return to Novi Sad, 13 May 1945; transfer of the bodies of his son, Ottó, and Ottó's two friends for burial in the Jewish cemetery in Novi Sad, 23 March 1946; announcement in a letter from his brother Artur regarding Ervin's death and a report of his fate, May 1946; according to the letter, Ervin was a forced laborer in labor battalion number IX/9 from which he escaped, late October 1944; his return to the battalion in Budapest; his billoting in the Albrecht military camp and going out for forced labor every day; transfer to Zurndorf, late November 1944; return to Kőszeg; labor digging anti-tank traps; deterioration of Ervin, 10 January 1945; Ervin's keeping a diary and entrusting it to his friend, György Sommer, to be handed over to Ervin's family; according to the entry made by the battalion physician, Ervin died 07 February 1945; his burial in a mass grave in Kőszeg; transfer of György Sommer to Eisenerz near Graz with the other forced laborers after the evacuation of Kőszeg; Sommer's death and the loss of the diary. - Experiences of the Blahm family: Frida Blahm and Sarolta Blahm from Újvidék (László Blahm's sisters) were deported to the Baja Ghetto, spring 1944; since their deportation from the ghetto to an unknown camp, there has been no more information about them; they perished. - Experiences of the Hirschl family: Árpád and Rózsa (Hirschl) Lederer (Adél Blahm's sister) from Novi Sad were murdered during a mass murder, January 1942; Pali Hirschl, the only child of Sándor Hirschl (Adél's brother) from Budapest served in a labor battalion and perished; János Hirschl, the physician son of Gyula Hirschl (Adél's brother) from Szeged served in a labor battalion and perished; Pista Hirschl, the son of Manó Hirschl (Adél's brother) from Szeged served in a labor battalion and perished. Also in the file: - Photograph of the Blahm family: László and Adél, and their sons Ottó and Ervin, celebrating the 25th wedding anniversary of László and Adél, 22 March 1939; - Biography of László Ladislav Blahm; Hebrew name: Mojse Lezer ben Nachmen.