LINHARDT BREUER SIMON FISCHMANN MAHLER SALZBERGER Genealogy Page

Marci's Story
an interview with Marcel's sister-in-law, Yoli Fischman

When Marcel was 19, he was one of 500 people who answered an advertisement for a position in a big rug factory in Begezchopa. The director of the factory hired him and put him in an office where his daughter also worked, hoping the two would fall in love and marry. But Marci was already in love with an older woman. She worked at an important job at the mayor's office in city of Békescsaba, but she lost her job because she was Jewish and communist. She then got a good job in a famous office in Budapest in commercial trade. Marcel's father and older brother Adi were very upset and dead set against the marriage because she was so much older and had no dowry. But Adi's wife Yoli said, "why not? she's educated." But Samuel sneered, "what do you care, you're only an in-law." Marcel didn't know what to do and even consulted a psychiatrist (who had some theory about Marcel being born while his mother was dying). One night, Adi and their father Samuel called Marcel over to have it out with him and talk him out of the marriage. But when he arrived, he wanted to know where was Yoli. Yoli had gone to bed. Marcel said fine, "I'll come back tomorrow since she's the only one I want to talk to." He came back the next day and talked with Yoli until 3 in the morning. He did marry Margit who moved back to Békescsaba (where her parents also lived). They had two children and were all taken to the camps and probably died.* Perhaps she survived an lived on as a communist because of her connections. ^[3]

* According to the 1944 records of the Kosice Train Station Military Command, a death train of 3118 people left Békescsaba on 27.6.1944 [http://www.kosice.sk/history/zidovsky/vlaksmrti.htm]