Acknowledgement

We thank Sandor Bacskai who responded to our posting in the JewishGen newsletter and led us to Rabbi Aaron Meir Krausz. Special thanks to Rabbi Krausz and his wife Leah who opened their home to Leah Kraus and me in a glorious spring afternoon and shared with us stories, photographs and other printed material of Edéleny. We are grateful to Malka Mysels for putting in writing the Krausz family history, for her words of encouragement, and for finding Edelény postcards. We are particularly thankful to Doitsh Lala of Bnei Brak, Israel for the photographs of the Edelény cemetery and Edelény boys he donated to us, and for the many hours he spent talking to us about the town of his youth. Also, we thank Yehoshua Kraus for his technical assistance. Finally, we are grateful to JewishGen and its team of volunteers, and Sam Glaser, our web designer, for making this project possible.

Leah and Viviana