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From: "reko" <>
Subject: [BANAT-L] Re: BANAT-D Digest V04 #74
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 09:58:57 -0500


Marlene,

If your family was, in fact, Hungarian - with a Hungarian name - they might have been spared from the camps. As a matter of fact, many Germans took the precaution of switching the German to Hungarian versions of their names. My grandmother's brother was married to a Croatian woman, so he and his family were safe. I understand that one of the criteria for who would be condemned to the camps was how they had answered a question as to their first language on the most recent census. If they had answered "German", they were doomed !

I'm sure that some other list members can add more ...

Thanks for your swift reply. I guess all systems are now okay ... What a relief !

Be in touch any time for any help I can offer.

Warmest regards,
Renate


----- Original Message -----
From: Marlene Norton
To: reko
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] Re: BANAT-D Digest V04 #74


I got your email.

It was your message that prompted me to send mine. I never thought of checking that. My thought was my grandparents were Hungarian so there was no need. A cousin, the only family left that might remember anything (she's 80) reminded me when omama came over in 1952 her daughters had been trying to get her out for years but requests for a passport were turned down. She was 88 when they finally granted her request. She arrived with nothing but the clothes she wore -- layers and layers of clothes. She was laughing as they helped her with her coat, sweater, sweater, etc. Her way of bringing all she could. She told us how she watched as a grandson was shot. She escaped from her home with nothing. Sneaked back through a window to retrieve a crucifix. Sneaked that to America, too. Her sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, married Danube Swabians. So of course it all affected my family. I just didn't think of that before..

Thanks for you reply.

Marlene. Born in Ohio, worked in Florida then retired to South Carolina

reko <> wrote:
Yes, Marlene, that book is an eye-opener for sure ...

Frank Dornstauder of the List has access to info about Batschka persons in
death camps. I have just sent off a List message referring to that with
regard to my own family's experiences.

Has that message come through to you? I seem to be having problems only
with messages to the List. All other e-mail is working okay. But, then ...
you got through ... Maybe the problem IS on this end after all.

Can you please confirm receipt of this e-mail? Thanks a million ...

Renate in Montreal


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlene Norton"
To:
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 7:46 AM
Subject: [BANAT-L] Re: BANAT-D Digest V04 #74




Are there LDS films for deaths in the death camps? When I started this
search for great grandparents I didn't expect to find all this horror. I'm
reading "In the Claws of the Red Dragon". My family was from the Batschka
and Syrmia. I heard my great grandmother watched as her grandson was shot.
I never heard mentioned a brother or son being born but have found LDS
records for several boys. I wondered what happened to them.

Marlene Norton

Searching for TOTH, DERKOVIC, PAPP, JURIK, KARASZ.



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