The family's feelings of security collapsed, however, when Germany invaded Hungary, and the brutality of the Nazis accelerated with murder, violence and terror. Eva lived with her grandparents, because her parents divorced and her mother, in the diary called Agi, remarried.
The family were at great risk because they were Jewish, and Eva and her grandparents were arrested and deported to the deathcamp Auschwitz on June 2, They were killed October, Hungarian Jews just arrived at Auschwitz - certain death awaited.. Her diary was her best friend to whom she could reveal her deepest secrets. This is the reason why diaries are so extraordinary. The diary presents one face, one life — something much more understandable to us than the almost , Hungarian Jews who were deported to Auschwitz, or the six million Jewish lives cut short by the Holocaust.
For centuries, Jews played a significant role in the economic, social, and intellectual life of the city. The city had famous Jewish doctors, writers, lawyers and businessmen. Between and , the city belonged to Rumania, and afterwards once again to Hungary. The majority of the them spoke Hungarian and were assimilated into Hungarian culture and way of life.
There were Orthodox as well as Neolog 4 Jews. Her diary begins with an introduction into her family situation and continues with the following listing of the presents she got for her birthday. I've turned thirteen, I was born on Friday the thirteenth. From my father, a pair of high-heeled shoes. Until now I have always worn only flat-heeled shoes [ I do a lot of athletics, swimming, skating, bicycle riding, and exercise. You're probably tired, dear diary.
She has many different hobbies and a dream — to become a news photographer when she is older. Her family members deal with these restrictions as best they can and try to convince each other that these restrictions are temporary, and that life will return to normal as soon as the war is over:.
We should only come out of the war in one piece, and then Grandpa will be manager again. Grandpa was the President of the pharmacists in our town, but he was thrown out because he is a Jew. She fears that she and her family will have the same fate as her friend. The Germans have come! Aunt Friedlander was just here. Early this morning the German and Hungarian police took Uncle Sandor and everyone they knew who is a Socialist or Communist. We heard on the radio this evening that in Budapest all the books ever written by Uncle Bela were taken to some kind of mill, because his books mustn't be read anymore, and they are harmful to people.
But not only Uncle Bela's books are harmful, also those written by other people. Today an order was issued that from now on Jews have to wear a yellow star-shaped patch. The order tells exactly how big the star patch must be, and that it must be sewn on every outer garment, jacket or coat. Today they arrested my father. At night they came to him and put a seal on his door.
For several days now I've known that a few hundred people are being held prisoner in the school in Koros Street, but until now they only took the very rich people. Every day they keep issuing new laws against the Jews. Today, for example, they took all our appliances away from us: the sewing machine, the radio, the telephone, the vacuum cleaner, the electric fryer and my camera.
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