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„A vándorbotot a kezünkbe vettük...”
Illés Albert élettörténete
- Issue: 2019/5
- Starting page: 38
- Author: Kóka Rozália
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Illés Albert’s story of relocation from his village in Bukovina in 1941. He and his family were first re-settled in the Bačka region of today’s Serbia. But in 1944 they had to flee northward into Hungary and were homeless for a time in the area where the final battles of WWII were going on. In 1945 Illés Albert and his family were placed in the house of a Swabian Hungarian family (that had been expelled to Germany) in the village of Felsőnána (Tolna County, Hungary). The residents that remained in this village were not welcoming. Two of his children died when a hand grenade left over from the war exploded one Sunday. In 1966 he moved his family to the town of Érd (near Budapest). Mr. Illés did not read or write. His story was recorded in five sessions between January 25 and March 29, 2001, then transcribed and a select number of copies went to his family, the town of Érd and Hungary’s National Library. He was born in Bukovina on January 12, 1919.