YIDDISH TRANSLATIONS

In 1946, my 19-year-old grandfather sent a telegram from the Gauting DP hospital. The telegram was found — of all places — in the United Nations Archives. This post delves into my grandfather's brief sojourn at the Gauting Sanatorium near Munich, where hundreds of Jewish (and non-Jewish) DPs ended up after the war.

Thanks to a chance find on the Hungarian Military History Archives, I happened upon my closest living relatives, in Israel and in Hungary.

Examining Secret Services Archive documents and talking to a 92-year-old ex-spy to learn about my grandparents' 1949 aliyah attempt.

My grandfather survived the Holocaust in Hungary and went to Germany. All this was a family secret. A nonagenarian now told me the back story. She is the second person I talked to in my entire life who told my about my grandfather. Members of Kibbutz Mahapecha of the Dror Habonim youth movement in the Indersdorf DP camp, November 1946. Credit: Ghetto Fighters House . In my previous blog post  on my grandfather, Károly Weisz, I detailed my relentless – if not desperate – attem

My quest to learn about my grandfather's fate in Holocaust-era Hungary and his attempt to make aliyah through Germany.