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Éva Fahidi
Éva Pusztai-Fahidi (22 October 1925 – 11 September 2023) was a Hungarian author and Holocaust survivor. She and her family were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944. Early life Éva Fahidi was born on 22 October 1925 in Debrecen and grew up in an Upper class, upper-class Hungarian-Jewish family. In 1936, her family converted to Catholic Church, Catholicism. On 29 April 1944, the Hungarian gendarmerie, who worked together with the Adolf Eichmann, Eichmann commando, arrested her, her parents Irma and Dezső Fahidi, and her eleven years old sister Gilike, and locked the family with other Jews in the city in a newly built ghetto that served as a prison. On 14 May 1944, they were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where her mother and sister were selected to die in the gas chambers by SS doctor Josef Mengele. Her father died from inhuman prison conditions. After six weeks, she was transferred to the Münch ...
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Debrecen
Debrecen ( ; ; ; ) is Hungary's cities of Hungary, second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain Regions of Hungary, region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the largest Hungarian city in the 18th century and it is one of the Hungarian people's most important cultural centres.Antal Papp: Magyarország (Hungary), Panoráma, Budapest, 1982, , p. 860, pp. 463-477 Debrecen was also the List of historical capitals of Hungary, capital city of Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, revolution in 1848–1849. During the revolution, the dethronement of the Habsburg dynasty was declared in the Reformed Great Church of Debrecen, Reformed Great Church. The city also served as the capital of Hungary by the end of World War II in 1944–1945. It is home to the University of Debrecen. Etymology There are at least three narratives of the origin of the city's name. The city is first documented in 1235, as ''De ...
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