Lenke Charlotta and Transcarpathia Auschwitz

: In 1943, after Transcarpathia reverted to Hungarian control, the sisters moved to Budapest in search of work, narrowly escaping deportation to Nazi camps, according to Globe and Mail. But their mother, Margit, was among more than 100,000 Jews taken from Transcarpathia to Auschwitz and killed in the gas chambers in the summer of 1944. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone Her father had abandoned the family when Lenke was 2 and her sister Charlotta was an infant, and Lenke never got over that desertion. Until the end of her life, Lenke could recite by heart her mother final letter: They’re taking us away. In October, 1944, Lenke and Charlotta were ordered to join tens of thousands of Budapest Jews on a five-day march to the Austrian border, under Hungarian command. I don’t know where. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.