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Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia Stories About The Righteous their way to the station to board a train for Pančevo. Left with no alternative, uncle Pavle mustered up his courage and, with the self-assurance of a man working for the Gestapo, he went ahead with his task so confidently that no one ever asked him who the boy beside him was. Thus, uncle Pavle and Josef also found themselves in Novi Kneževac in Mariska Csanádi’s home. It was the one time Josef and Ruža found themselves together. Although a mere three kilometres apart, the two of them would next meet after liberation. The river Tisa was a boundary line between the regions established after the division of Yugoslavia. The river was also a line that separated brother from sister. The Tisa fishermen took Pavle and Josef across to the opposite bank of the river, from where they set off on foot for Kanjiža, which was under Hungarian occupation at the time. In his native town, Kanjiža, Pavle had a copious family and their accommodation presented no problem. The following day Pavle went to report to the local police. He told them how he and his “son” Josef had fled from Belgrade since it was becoming far too dangerous for Hungarians to live there. Inventing a “wife, who had been killed in the bombing of Belgrade”, he told the police of his decision to return to his hometown knowing it would be safer for both him and “his” child. The police believed his story and issued all the necessary papers for Pavle and his son. However, as Josef had no knowledge of Hungarian, Pavle hastened to take him away from Kanjiža. He left him with his relatives, Janos and Erszika Koso, on their farmstead. They were told the same story as the police. In fact, no one in Kanjiža was aware that little Josef was a Jew except for an attorneyat-law, who was also Jewish. Living on the farmstead, Josef learned Hungarian swiftly. Although still a child, he always found a way to be of help to his hosts. Pigs were slaughtered each Friday and the meat was sold in Budapest. They had flocks of geese on the farm and, just as everywhere else in the world; Patriarach Pavle in the company of Rabbi Cadik Danon at the Righteous Among the Nations Award presentation ceremony goose liver was a treasured article on the Budapest market. Josef was no longer hungry. The one thing he could not do was leave the farmstead. However, his adoptive father came to visit regularly. It was on one of these visits that the two of them heard of the end of the war. Ruža was a young lady of fifteen when the Russians liberated Novi Kneževac. The joy of liberation was dimmed when Russian soldiers began raping women and girls in the liberated town. Ruža had come to spend much of her time in the section of the house where Ilonka, Mariska’s sister, and her husband, Janči-bači, lived. She happened to be sleeping in that part of the house when the incident with Russian soldiers happened. The drunken Russians barged into the house searching for women to entertain themselves with. Janči swiftly hid Ilonka in the pantry and threw a blanket over Ruža, who was sleeping in an infant’s bed. Highly displeased, the Russians left the house. Persistent in his desire, one of them stayed on, saying he would not leave until he saw who was sleeping in the small bed. As he drew near the bed, Janči approached him from behind and hit him on 42
Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia Stories About The Righteous the head with a pole he found close by. He packed the Russian into a sack and carried him to the mill across from their house. No one ever spoke of the incident again. Out of their numerous families, Ruža and Josef were the only ones to survive the horrors of Nazi persecution. Forever grateful to their saviour, Josef kept Pavle’s surname and to this day has remained Josef Zsámboki.. Pal Zsámboki and Marija-Mariška Čanadi both awarded a Righteous among Nations in 1995 43
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