Tag #116838 - Interview #102297 (Janos Dorogi)

My father was born in 1893 in Nagyvarad. He was called Laszlo Feigelbaum, but he magyarized it to Dorogi in 1906.  My grandfather decided to magyarize it, and it became Dorogi because he was born in Hajdudorog.  My father went to high-school for four years in Nagyvarad, and then to a trade college for three years.  He graduated from there.  Uncle Vilmos, who wanted my father to work in the trade business, sent him to Pest for a year to learn banking, and in Marosvasarhely he sent him to work with an agent who would buy a trainload of, say, coffee or tea for the business.  Uncle Vilmos had my father educated.  But in the meantime the war began.  My father was a volunteer then, with the rank of Captain.  He was sent to the Russian front, and he got shot so badly in the arm in ’17 that his right arm was paralyzed.