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When I first went to my wife’s family’s home, I thought I’d pass out, because I saw that they had a Christmas tree. They always celebrated Christmas. Her father, when there weren’t enough Jews in Kispest, always went to the temple to make a minyan, but he didn’t know how to pray. My wife’s mother was taken away in 1944. There was a lady from the country who had stayed with my wife’s parents as a sort of live-in servant. After World War II my wife’s father married this woman. As a matter of fact, my wife couldn’t have had a Jewish upbringing from her mother. But I was really surprised by the Christmas tree. My grandmother wouldn’t come to visit when she found out they had a Christmas tree.
Location
Budapest
Hungary
Interview
Peter Reisz