Resilience: One Family's Story of Hope and Triumph over Evil

by Judy Stone MD

Overview

Like many children of Holocaust survivors, Judy Stone didn’t know the details of her family’s story when she was growing up.
 
In 2008, she attended the annual conference of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants and was told that less than 10 percent of Hungarian Jews from outside Budapest survived. Yet of the seven siblings on her mother’s side, six had survived forced labor units, Auschwitz and other concentration camps, and death marches. In addition, Stone’s father and his brother were together in labor units and Dachau from late 1942 until May 1945, except for the last six weeks of the war, and both survived.
 
Understanding for the first time that her family is unique, Stone started more seriously trying to put together the family’s story. Thus came the story of Resilience, a unique perspective on the Holocaust.
 
To gather the information needed for this book, the author interviewed nine Holocaust survivors in her family and eight of their children, in addition to viewing USC Visual History Foundation tapes of other survivors and conducting extensive research.
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780974917825
Publisher:	Mountainside MD Press
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Judy Stone, MD, is the daughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors and has a longstanding interest in genealogy and family history. She also is an infectious diseases physician and the author of Conducting Clinical Research: A Practical Guide, which has been adopted as a text throughout the country.
 
Stone had a busy solo, 100 percent ID practice in rural Cumberland, Maryland for 25 years and now works part-time as a locum tenens (substitute) physician.
 
She is a Forbes Pharma and Healthcare contributor and previously wrote the Molecules to Medicine column for Scientific American. Stone particularly likes writing about the overlap between medicine, politics, and social justice issues, based on the values she was raised with. She studied briefly in Peru and Thailand and volunteered and taught in India. She still wants to save the world when she grows up and would love to teach overseas.
 
She lives in Cumberland, Maryland.
 
 

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Preface: The Promise xv

Acknowledgments xxiii

Introduction 1

1 The Ehrenfelds 4

2 The Glattsteins 20

3 Early Life in Sáránd, 1910-1930 31

4 Grandfather Mór 39

5 My Grandmothers 46

6 Magdus's Childhood 48

7 The Watershed 51

8 Miki's Shop 58

9 Prelude to War 62

10 The Brother I Never Knew 67

11 My Son's Birth 70

12 The Sáránd Ghetto 73

13 Kati's Friends 81

14 Obedience 83

15 The Shoes 86

16 Bözsi and Tibi 89

17 Bözsi in Auschwitz 92

18 Mór and Kati Reach Auschwitz 99

19 Grandfather Mór's Death 104

20 Magdus's Arrival at Auschwitz 107

21 Finding Family at Auschwitz 111

22 The Night of the Gypsies 116

23 Another Selection, Another Separation 118

24 Argus and Magdus's Death March 121

25 Allendorf 127

26 Miklós's Story 132

27 Klari's War Years 142

28 Klari and Magdus Search for Family 149

29 Sanyi and Mild 156

30 Miki's Search for Magdus 160

31 Kati's Liberation 163

32 The Family Moves to Zennern 166

33 Klari and Imre 171

34 Miklós and Ella 179

35 Gatherings at Anyu's 183

36 The Twins: Pista and Józsi 187

37 Mari and Jakus 191

38 Ancsi 197

39 Sanyi and Kati's Romance 208

40 Kati and Pete 212

41 Bözsi and Jack 215

42 The Philanderer 220

43 George's Babyhood 225

44 In Search of the American Dream 227

45 Silver Spring Years 230

46 Cross-Country Trips 235

47 The Aftermath 239

48 Klari's Smile 248

49 The Sisters' Grudges and Competition 252

50 The Brothers' Relationships 256

51 Pesach 259

52 Ambivalence, Mixed Emotions-Muddled 262

53 Discovering András 265

54 Finding Ma's Friends in Hungary 272

55 Kati's Return to Allendorf 276

56 Suicide 278

57 Family Reunions 282

58 Obsession with the Holocaust 286

59 Independence 288

60 Speaking Out 290

61 Grandchildren 292

62 Ma's Death 300

63 Tchotchkes 306

64 The Second Aftermath 309

65 My Return to Hungary 312

66 My Reconciliation with Kati 315

67 Records from the USHMM 322

68 Except for Kati 326

Conclusion 328

Epilogue 330

Glossary 333

Notes 335

Index 345

About the Author 357