Factory “Manfred Weiss“
Klára M. tells us:
“I am coming from a plain Jewish family from Munkács. In my childhood (born 1921) we belonged to Czechoslovakia, from 1938 on to Hungary. Thenceforth, life became more and more difficult. My father was an ironmonger, his business was confiscated. We never had much money, but then we had none anymore. Therefore I went to Budapest (1940) and worked there. My mother did weep awfully. I was her only child. But I had to do it. It was the only way to send her some money. I did nurse Jewish children, nowadays you would call this “babysitting”. Later this did not work anymore, so I went to work in the “Manfred Weiss“ factory in. Csepel. The factory was kind of a labor camp at the same time. From there we had to go to a brickyard — to Buda-Kalász. It was not far away, about 20–30 kms from Budapest. But we had to walk on foot, and I had the suitcase with me! It was very heavy, I rather liked to throw it away. It contained two costumes, shoes… many of us had a suitcase with them … We thought we would still need it. But later everything was taken away from us! In the brickyard it was raining, and we became wet. We had no roof over our heads. We had nothing to eat. There I saw horrible things for the first time in my life. People died there, and no one cared about it. This was not worthy of a human being. Not even of an animal. It was much worse….…”
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