He presided the Judenrat in Kecel during the Holocaust. He graduated from trade school in Budapest , then worked as an iron and general merchant in the family store in Kecel. According to his epitaph, he was awarded orders of valor.
He functioned as notary of the local Orthodox Jewish congregation. They were permitted to return to there in the spring of , under strict police supervision. His role was only formal, within weeks the Jews were locked up in a ghetto and then deported by the local gendarmerie units. He and his son survived the Holocaust, but his year mother was murdered on her death march from Mauthausen to Gunskirchen in April He unsuccessfully tried to recover his stolen property.
His store was nationalized in by the Communist authorities. He wrote the history of the Jews of Kecel in He died in Kiskunhalas on 9 June Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. Hungarian Jewish merchant and religious leader β This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
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