György Fenyö

Born on June 20, 1936 in Budapest, Hungary.

I was only four years old when another, older boy called me ’bloody Jew’ on the street. There has always been antisemitism in Hungary. My father was working in a company when the anti-Jewish legislation­­was implemented 1938. The owner of the company was Jewish so he could no longer own his business. My father became unemployed. In November 1942 my father was taken to the forced labour service of the Jews at the Hungarian army. He vanished in february 1943. There were no witnesses to his death. My mother, paternal grandmother and I lived in Budapest in our flat until the summer of 1944 when we had to move three times to different flats in so called Jewish houses. After the coup d’état of the fascistic Arrow Cross Party taking the power in Hungary grandmother was deported and we never saw her again. In November 1944 my mother and I were taken to the ghetto of Budapest. The Russian Army liberated us on the 18th of January 1945.  

I arrived to Sweden illegally as a refugee in December 1956. I left Hungary because of its antisemitism and because of its communist system. In Sweden I became a surgeon. I have one daughter and two grandchildren.