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Article: The day the Nazis came for my father's family
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 7, 1994
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Fifty years ago this week, the Nazis came for my father's family.
The Jakubovics -- there were seven of them in the house -- were
awakened before dawn when the SS pounded on their window. Like the
other Jews in Legina, a village on the Slovak-Hungarian border, they
were ordered to gather their belongings and prepare to leave at once.
Thirty minutes later they were put on horse-drawn wagons and
carted out of Legina. In the nearest large Hungarian town, a place
called Satoraljaujhely, Jews from all over the region were being
herded into a ghetto. The walls were still going up around it as the
Jakubovic family arrived.
It was the day after Passover, the ancient Jewish festival
celebrating ...