Articles by Initial Letters
Márika, a tábornok unokája
- Issue: 2008/4
- Starting page: 30
- Author: Kóka Rozália
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In the Wake of History. Mrs. Ludányi András (Gaál Annamária)’s personal account of her life and the saga of her family during the war and since then. She was born in 1944 and was baptized while Budapest was being bombed in WWII. Her father was taken away by the Russians when she less than a year old. They never saw him again. From then on, she lived with her mother and grandmother like others during that period, especially anyone having any connection with any part of society unpopular with the government in power. Her grandfather had been a general and her father a lawyer before WW II. The authorities moved them from one place to another where they shared houses/ rooms/ apartments with many people in many different towns. She finished school at the age of 15 and went to work immediately, knowing that she had no chance of further study under that government. Eventually she, her mother and grandmother made a contract with an elderly woman in Budapest who needed care, in exchange for which they inherited her flat. She cared for her mother and grandmother until she met her husband in 1995. She now lives in the USA. As told to Kóka Rozália.