Olga

Birthdate: 7 Apr 1923

Place: Karancsbereny, Hungary

After the Nazis annexed Hungary in 1944 Olga and her family were forced to move into the ghetto in Budapest and soon afterwards they were deported to Auschwitz. After the war Olga returned to Hungary and in 1965 she and her husband came to New Zealand where they operated their own small jewellery business in Auckland for 24 years.

Antisemitism In Home Village

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The history of the Jewish peoples’ migration into Europe can be traced back to the original diaspora from biblical Israel, There were Jews in Europe from the days of pagan Rome. By the year 1000, they were recorded as engaging in agriculture and viticulture throughout the Rhineland area. Chaim Potok in his History of the Jews says that many were “ respected international merchants able to travel with ease across the lines that now divided the world into two warring powers, Christianity and Islam because…Christians and Muslims trusted them more than they trusted each other”.. >> more