MOLNER - INBAR AGOTA - SHULA

Agota Molner Klara Molner

Ya'akov Molner

RelatioNet MO AG 40 BA HU

INTERVIEWER:
Full Name/s ADI INBAR-SHARON SAPORTAS

Survivor:
Code: RelatioNet MO AG 40 BA HU
Family Name: MOLNER
First Name: AGOTA
Father Name: Ya'akov
Mother Name: Klara
Birth Date: 16/2/1940
Town In Holocaust:Baja
Country In Holocaust:Hungary
ProfessionStatus (Today):nurse
AliveAddress Today: Dvora Hanevia -Tel-Aviv

Information about Baja- Aguta bith town:

Baja is a town in southern hungary.

It is the second largest town in Bacs kiskun cuntry after the contry seat Kecskemet.

In 1918, after the world war 1 the ceasefire line a city under adminustration of the newly formed kingdom of serbs, croats and solvenes.

By the Treaty of Trianon from 1920, the town was assigned to Hungary, and became the capital of the reduced of Bacs kiskun.

Following world war 1 the town became knwen for its textil mill and the bridge over the Danube. Its impotnce is still evident as people from the Bacska(backa) region of Hungarycome for higher education, govermment and business services.

An interview with shula inbar(Agota Molner):

1) Can you tell me about your town?

"Baja-a small city.
Before the war there was a synagogue and a church.
All the Jews have assembles around the synagogue and the Christian around the church.
It was like the city was a suppurated to 2 parts but, there was a good relationship between the Jews and the Christians.

I lived in a big house.
My grand-mother owned an embroidered bedclothes factory and she use to employ Christian workers.
My mother sold underwear and the men used to work in trade."

2) Can you tell me about your school?

"I learned at school until third grade.
I was the only Jew at school because nobody came back to the city after the war."

3) Can you tell me your story, what happened to our family?

"At the beginning of the war the Hungarian people had cooperated with the Germans, they collect all the young men and sent them to fight against the Russian.
My father was killed in that part of the war.
When the German broke into Hungary, the Hungarians helped them to kill the whole Jewish community.
All that happened near the end of the war, then the Jewish community of U.S.A paid the Hungarian to save Jewish people.
My mother my grand mother and me were sent to a working camp according to the payment of the Jewish community of u.s.a.
My grand father and my uncle had been sent to the concentration camp, my grand father died there and my uncle was saved and came back."

4) Can you tell me about your time at the working camp?

"We were about 30 kids at the camp and maybe 120 women,
There was an Austrian guard who weren't Nazi.
While the women worked and cleaned the wagons the kids had to stay at the camp.
The guard had treated us very nicely; he made sure that we had food and medications.
When my grand mother got breast Cancer he treated her well and worried about her all the time.
When the Russian invaded Austria he disappeared and left the gate open so that we could runaway.
We started to move on with the Russian army which treated us nicely."

5) Did You came back to your birth city?

"Yes, the people in the city were very nice.
We lived with my other grand mother, my grand mother who survived the war flew to her other daughter in Argentina."

6) How did you come to Israel?

"My mother decided to come in an illegal way, we crossed the border to the Czech Republic by paying a lot of money to the Smuggles.

My uncle and grand mother got caught at the border and they had to spent time in prison.
My grand mother spent there six months and my uncle spent there about 1 or 2 years."

7) Can you tell me about acclimatization in Israel?

"There were three or four friends of my mother here; they helped us find a place to live. My mother couldn't work in here profession so she worked at the hospital "Asaf Harofe`" as a chef.
I learned in elementary school and a kid from Hungary taught me and helped me with the language."