JULIUS SZENASI
The interview was recorded in the Mr. Szenasi’s family home, in Levice. Mr. Szenasi’s family history is marked by flight, protection, and devastating loss under wartime Hungarian jurisdiction. His hometown of Mochovce, like nearby Levice and Vráble, faced mass deportations between 1938 and 1945, with sixty people intended for a concentration camp, likely Dachau, from which few returned. While his father was reportedly saved from this fate by a local writer and priest–and others fled to Slovakia to avoid deportation-Mr. Szenasi’s grandfather, a famous cimbalom player, was tragically sent from Stúrovo to Terezin and subsequently to Dachau. From accounts of fellow prisoners The family was able to piece together his grandfather’s long, harrowing post-war journey home from Dachau, from which he never returned.
