Alice Kertész
Digital exhibitionSeven lives
Alice, Sándor and Tomas came to Sweden in 1957. They first lived with Alice's aunt, but soon moved to Borås. There Alice worked in the textile industry at the company Lapidus. After five years in Borås, they moved back to Stockholm.
Sándor had difficulty finding work and never really settled in. He was in his fifties when the family moved to Sweden. On the morning of March 9, 1964, Sándor took his own life in the family's apartment on Bastugatan in Stockholm.
Alice and Tomas moved to Bagarmossen. In the late 1970s, Alice became very ill. She died in the autumn of 1982 at Rosenlund Hospital in Stockholm. A few years after her death, Tomas began researching what had happened to his relatives and the 500 Jews from his birthplace of Jázberény who were murdered by the Nazis.
Tomas Kertész has shared his parents' story with the Swedish Holocaust Museum.
