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Document ID: 131982472
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Document Collection: 7-14-1 Documentation of the CLI
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Edita/Edit Török, née Taubner, was rescued by György Török whom she married after the war, compare here:
"György Török worked in a food store in Budapest. A young man with a liberal, humanist outlook, he counted many Jews among his friends, including the Weisz and Taubner families. After the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Török remained in contact with Jews who had been forced to enter the ghetto, or had been drafted into forced labor, and helped them however he could. He helped two of his friends, Dr. László Miklós and Miklós Lévay, who were serving in a labor-service company in faraway Tata, to communicate with their families in the Budapest ghetto. Despite the great risk, Török came to Tata regularly, appearing at predetermined times in a field far from the work camp. He brought food, letters and information for his friends, as well as for dozens of other Jews in the labor unit with whom he had no previous personal contact. One of the forced laborers helped by Török was a caricature artist named Jenő Farkas. After the war, Farkas immigrated to Israel, changed his name to Yaacov Ze’ev Farkas, and he commemorated Török’s heroism in his drawings. Török helped his Jewish friends in the Budapest ghetto by sneaking them food. He also followed the labor unit from Tata to the Hungarian border, where he helped Miklós Lévay escape before the unit was transferred to the Germans. In the winter of 1944, Török received a phone call from Edit Taubner, a Jewish woman who he had known before the war. Taubner had just escaped from a train station to which she had been taken, along with 400 other Jewish women, in preparation for expulsion to Ravensbrück.
This group of women, who had been working in a sewing factory under the auspices of the Hungarian military, had hoped that their status as “vital workers” would shield them from deportation, but this was not to be. Taubner arrived at the train station but at the last minute she escaped to a public telephone booth, from where she called Török. Without hesitation, Török rushed to the station, foundTaubner and transferred her to a hiding place. After the war, Török and Taubner were married. For Török’s 70th birthday, their son, Dr. Tamás Török, collected testimonies from his father’s survivors, who were living, among other places, in Hungary, Australia and Israel. On November 7, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized György Török as Righteous Among the Nations." - https://righteous.yadvashem.org/?searchType=righteous_only&language=en&itemId=4017911&ind=0
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Thank you very much,@jweste3460 , the story of Edita Taubner and the brave Török is very interesting, and finally, reading a happy ending!!
This is what I thought as well!
Have a nice evening!
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