Sixteen notebooks in handwritten English…
Among the thousands of Holocaust diaries, Madi’s is a rare account written in English by a non-Jewish member of a local gentry, the museum said. It is blunt, harsh in parts, compassionate, wistful, sarcastic. It tells the story of an unusual woman, a British-educated, divorced Hungarian doctor who held some negative views about Jews but risked her life to hide a Jewish friend, Irene Lakos, and her friend’s seven-year-old nephew.
The nephew, Alfred Lakos, now 77, who lives in the US in Waleska, Georgia, said recently: “She was a hero, in my book.” His aunt survived, as well, and died in Italy in 1998, he said.
via Diaries reveal Jewish suffering during Holocaust in Hungary.