Legacy of Rescue : A Daughter's Tribute - Softcover

Marta Fuchs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977873501 ISBN 13: 9780977873500

Publisher: Csaladnak Press, 2012

Synopsis

Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute tells the story of the author's father, Morton (Miksa) Fuchs, and Zoltan Kubinyi, the man who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men during the Holocaust. Zoltan Kubinyi was a devout Seventh Day Adventist and a Hungarian army officer who was assigned to be the Commanding Officer of Morton Fuchs' forced labor battalion in the last year of the war. A year later, as Germany was retreating, Zoltan Kubinyi received orders to march the Jewish men from Russia where they were working toward a concentration camp in Germany since they were no longer needed for the war effort. Instead he defied the Nazi orders and marched the men back into Hungary, arranging to have them hidden in farmhouses along the way. In Balassagyarmát, Hungary, Zoltan Kubinyi was taken as a POW by the liberating Russian Army. He died a year later from typhus in a Siberian labor camp and was buried in an unmarked grave. He left behind a young wife and infant son living in Budapest. Upon returning to their destroyed communities, Morton Fuchs, the sole survivor of his family -- his siblings and their children killed in Auschwitz -- and his fellow labor camp members took turns sending monthly care packages to Kubinyi's family. Due to Morton Fuchs' testimony, Zoltan Kubinyi was posthumously honored in 1990 as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem. The story of rescue came full circle in the summer of 2011 when the author and her brother took their children back to Hungary to meet the rescuer's family. The rescuer s son, now in his late '60s, never knew his father, and with his wife and granddaughters the great grandchildren of Zoltan Kubinyi the author s family talked about the heroic actions of his father and how this courageous man none of them knew has made such an indelible impact on all their lives.

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About the Author

Marta Fuchs was born in Budapest and lived with her family in Tokaj until they escaped to the U.S. in the wake of the 56 Hungarian Revolution. She holds a BA in Linguistics and an MA in Library Science, both from UC Berkeley, and an MA in Clinical Psychology from JFK University in Orinda, CA. Marta is a professional librarian and Director of Library Services at Drew School, a college preparatory high school in San Francisco, CA. She is also a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in Albany, CA. With her brother Henry Fuchs she wrote the multigenerational extended family memoir, Fragments of a Family: Remembering Hungary, the Holocaust, and Emigration to a New World c1997). For over two decades, Marta Fuchs has spoken about Zoltan Kubinyi in schools, temples, churches, and interfaith programs. She has also been featured in newspaper articles and television programs, and has presented at city-wide programs, conferences and Holocaust Commemorations in the US and Hungary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Csaladnak Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977873501
• ISBN 13: 9780977873500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208