Contributors
Aaron — my grandson’s interest in the Holocaust, and specifically the Holocaust in Budapest started when he was in elementary school when he spent a summer helping me scan boxes of documents and photographs.
Lily Bolgár — my cousin Lily was my grandmother’s niece, the daughter of her younger sister Irén Günsberger Bolgár. She had a special perspective of WWII: her brother, Dr. Sándor Bolgár, a lawyer who worked for the Jewish Congregation of Budapest, was conscripted into the forced labor battalions MUSZ in the Hungarian armed forces and froze to death near the Don in Russia.
Both cousin Lily and great-aunt Irén lived with us during the occupation. She was a close relative in Budapest, about 6 1/2 years younger than my mother (Margit Ébenspanger Balázs). She knew the situations of both my immediate family and the Alsóság branch of my Günsberger extended family.
She was a unique and exceptional source of information. I am forever grateful.
Margit Wilde and Ferenc Wilde — Parallel Diaries of Margit Wilde and Ferenc Wilde from 1944 / Epistolary diaries by the Wilde siblings back in Hungary, reporting on the German occupation of Budapest, 1944 (HU)
More cruel than any country.
Parallel Diaries of Margit Wilde and Ferenc Wilde from 1944 / Epistolary diaries by the Wilde siblings back in Hungary, reporting on the German occupation of Budapest, 1944 (HU)
Translated by Csilla Markója, in: Wilde és a Bécsi Iskola vol. I-IV., ed. by Csilla Markója, István Bardoly
Full text in Hungarian downloaded from Academia.edu
Selected sections translated from Hungarian by Anne-Marie Pollowy Toliver
Note
This is a unique “contribution”. It provides a reliable account of what was happening in Budapest by two people who are not Jews but have Jewish friends that they try to help. Ferenc counts the number of air raid sirens, describes air battles, bombings, fires, shortages, and casualties. From their home in Buda, they see these fires in and around Pest and Csepel Island. They also recount some of the events of the larger war as reported on their radio, providing a context for developments in Budapest.
Such diaries are an enormous contribution to my understanding of the day-to-day conditions and developments.