Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter’s Tribute b y Marta Fuchs
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Legacy of Rescue:
A Daughter’s Tributeby Marta Fuchs
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Tokaj, Hungary (pop 5,000)
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Our house today
• Built when my Dad’s father got married, mid 1890s
• Dad and Henry both born there
Marta and Henry early 1950s
With mom in our backyard (plum trees, corn, potatoes, berries)
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My father,
Miksa Fuchs (1911-2000)
before the war, 1931
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My father’s first forced labor battalion, 1940
• Hungarian Jewish men of military age • drafted into labor battalions attached to the Hungarian
army to fulfill required military duty• anti-Jews laws prevented them from serving in regular
army
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Zoltán Kubinyi (1901-1946)
• Became my father’s Commanding Officer in 1944 after predecessor had accident going to headquarters seeking permission for decimation
• Seventh Day Adventist, kind, respectful, Conscientious Objector, no gun in his holster
• Rescued 100 Jewish men by defying Nazi/Hungarian orders, refusing to march the battalion from Russia to concentration camp
in Germany
• Instead marched them toward Hungary, arranging hiding in farmhouses along the way
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Ending of Dad’s February 1988 testimony to Yad Vashem
requesting Righteous Among the Nations recognition for Kubinyi:
Zoltán Kubinyi was a true human being in the deepest sense of the word. During this catastrophic event, when civilized, intelligent people were blinded with irrational hatred, and innocent people, mothers with babies in their arms were slaughtered, HE WAS A MAN. Risking his own life, he stood up for and defended the innocent, persecuted people.
The memory of Zoltán Kubinyi deserves the highest honor that a person could possibly deserve for his altruistic, heroic, and self-sacrificing activities.
(my translation of Dad’s letter in Hungarian)
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Márton Kubinyi (1944 -) 6 months old when his father went off to war
His mother refused to
believe word of his father’s death in Siberia and prayed ‘til the end of her days for his return
Márton had to drop out of school at age 14 to work in order to support them
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Son, Márton Kubinyi (right) -- Budapest 1994receiving Yad Vashem commendation on behalf of his father
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Tokaj Synagogue Holocaust Commemoration in 1994
(restored Synagogue is now part of Cultural Center, concerts held there)
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Tokaj, view from Synagogue window
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Zoltán Kubinyi and his wife(received photo from son when met him in 1994, Holocaust Commemoration,
Tokaj)
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Visiting Márton Kubinyi and his family -- Komjáti, Hungary, June 2011
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Mom today age 94
Mom and Dad, 1996 (married 50 years then)
Dad under his lemon tree with Torah and flower crown for Shavuot(Mom’s family tradition to make)