The Kallos Family Book 2022

46 • THE KALLOS FAMILY
grandfather cry so bitterly. The reason was
not the slap in the face, but the hurt pride of
an old man being violated by a young man in
such a way.
Hungarian Jews such as Samuel, now in
Czechoslovakia, who had tried to assimilate
with Hungarian society in the former Austro–
Hungarian empire, believed the Holocaust could
not affect them, but when the time came, their
deep patriotism and love of Hungary did not
save them. They were punished by Czechoslovakia
for being supporters of Hungary, and then
they were betrayed by Hungary when it reoccupied
the area. Samuel and Sarah were gassed on
arrival at Auschwitz–Birkenau (see page 26 for a
photo of Samuel and Sarah Lazarovics in 1942).