The Kallos Family Book 2022

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
Ťačovo 1
Ťačovo’s ethnic groups 3
The Jewish community of Ťačovo 3
Part 1
The Kallos Family 5
Zoltan and Lili-Regina Kallos 7
The Kallos family 7
Parents 7
Children 7
Zoltan Kallos, hotel owner 7
The Tabak family 10
Barbara (Biri) Kallos 12
The Ickovic family 18
Family life 20
German occupation 21
Deportation to Auschwitz–Birkenau 23
Arrival in Birkenau 25
Lübberstedt–Bilohe 28
Haffkrug DP camp 29
Finding Iren Tabak 30
Nazi war crimes in Lübberstedt–Bilohe 32
The survivors 32
The Kallos family 32
The Tabak family 35
The Lazarovics sisters 37
The Ickovic family 37
The Ruttner family 39
The extended Kallos family 40
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Part 2
The Lazarovics family 41
Samuel and Sarah Lazarovics 42
Samuel’s World War 1 military service 42
Samuel Lazarovics in Czechoslovakia 45
Hungary reoccupies Ťačovo 45
Part 3
The story behind the story 47
How I met Barbara Kallos 48
Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 48
Barbara Kallos interview, Rotterdam, 1999 49
Mindu Hornick, survivor and educator 49
Meeting in Hamburg, May 2018 49
Visit to Muna Lübberstedt 50
Mindu Hornick 51
The Kallos family descendants 51
Epilogue 53
Appendix 1
Certified Translation from German
of Interview with Barbara Lorber 54
Appendix 2
Hungary’s apology 58
Appendix 3
Beit Máramaros (Máramaros House),
Israel 60
The Máramaros Yizkor Book 63