Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute

By Marta Fuchs
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Published: Nov. 28, 2012
Words: 46,641 (approximate)
Language: American English
ISBN: 9780977873524

Short description

An illustrated intergenerational memoir of the author’s father and the Commanding Officer who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men in forced labor under his command during the Holocaust. Captured by the liberating Russian Army, Zoltán Kubinyi died a year later in a Siberian labor camp. Due to Morton Fuchs' testimony, he was posthumously honored as a Righteous Among the Nations.

Extended description

Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute tells the story of the author's father, Morton (Miksa) Fuchs, and Zoltán Kubinyi, the man who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men during the Holocaust. Zoltán Kubinyi was a devout Seventh Day Adventist and a Hungarian army officer who was assigned to be the Commanding Officer of Morton Fuchs' forced labor battalion in the last year of the war. A year later, as Germany was retreating, he received orders to march the Jewish men from Russia where they were working toward a concentration camp in Germany since they were no longer needed for the war effort. Instead he defied the Nazi orders and marched the men back into Hungary, arranging to have them hidden in farmhouses along the way. In Balassagyarmát, Hungary, Zoltan Kubinyi was taken as a POW by the liberating Russian Army. He died a year later from typhus in a Siberian labor camp and was buried in an unmarked grave. He left behind a young wife and infant son living in Budapest. .. (Read more) Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute tells the story of the author's father, Morton (Miksa) Fuchs, and Zoltán Kubinyi, the man who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men during the Holocaust. Zoltán Kubinyi was a devout Seventh Day Adventist and a Hungarian army officer who was assigned to be the Commanding Officer of Morton Fuchs' forced labor battalion in the last year of the war. A year later, as Germany was retreating, he received orders to march the Jewish men from Russia where they were working toward a concentration camp in Germany since they were no longer needed for the war effort. Instead he defied the Nazi orders and marched the men back into Hungary, arranging to have them hidden in farmhouses along the way. In Balassagyarmát, Hungary, Zoltan Kubinyi was taken as a POW by the liberating Russian Army. He died a year later from typhus in a Siberian labor camp and was buried in an unmarked grave. He left behind a young wife and infant son living in Budapest. Upon returning to their destroyed communities, Morton Fuchs, the sole survivor of his family -- his siblings and their children killed in Auschwitz -- and his fellow labor camp members took turns sending monthly care packages to Kubinyi's family. Due to Morton Fuchs' testimony, Zoltán Kubinyi was posthumously honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem. The story of rescue came full circle in the summer of 2011 when the author and her brother took their children back to Hungary to meet the rescuer's family. With the rescuer's son, his wife, and granddaughters -- the great grandchildren of Zoltán Kubinyi -- the author’s family discussed the heroic actions of this compassionate and courageous man none of them knew but who has made such an indelible impact on all their lives.
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tolerance, grandparents, holocaust, altruism, grandchildren, interfaith, seventh day adventist, intergenerational relationships, hungary, rescuers, second generation, holocaust survivors, jewish traditions, righteous gentiles, third generation, tokaj

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