Márta’s story

Márta in Hungarian attire

Márta in Hungarian attire

Márta Hegedűs was born to a Jewish bourgeois family in 1921. She married her suitor Ferenc Ofner and the end of the 1930s. She survived the Holocaust in Budapest. She became a teacher after the war. Similarly to other Hungarian Jews (and Christians), the family was about to leave the country several times during the turmoil of the twentieth century: South America was the destination in 1939, Israel in 1957. However, they eventually stayed both. Márta died in Budapest.