Cigánd - KisCzigánd - NagyCzigánd
(Hungary)
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In Memory of Cigánd's Holocaust Victims
This web site is dedicated to the memory of
the Jewish souls
of this
little-known village, who were murdered in the Holocaust. Collectively, as
descendents of the survivors, we owe this task not only to the victims,
but also to the coming generations.
Personally,
I owe this task to my late father (Laszlo Revai-Róth, Avrohom Yitzchag ben
Michael, alav HaShalom), who has patiently collected and documented the
names of the Jewish families of Cigand. After the war, he had often
visited Cigand and its Jewish cemetery and has done much to ensure that it
was kept from disappearing into oblivion.
Being
part of the first generation born after the Holocaust, I, like many of my
contemporaries, grew up without having known any of my grandparents. Not
even from pictures. It was much later, after having defected from Hungary
in the early 1970-s, that the first surviving pictures were discovered at
family members living in the USA. Those precious few pictures gave me the
initial impetus to start researching my roots and building my family
tree.
For
me, the process of searching, finding and assembling the "missing links",
as it were, has been very exciting and rewarding. Lately, having made
contact with a few other people with Cigand ancestry, I realized that I
wasn't the only one searching. So it should be. We represent a people with
an unbroken chain of generations going back all the way...well, to Mount
Sinai.
As tragic and monumental the scale of destruction
had been in the Holocaust, we are here! And, being here, we must
preserve the past and pass it to the generations to come.
On the following pages I wish to share with you recorded information and pictures left to me by my father. It is my hope that other people with Cigand roots will also contribute their respective writings, recollections and/or pictures. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, suggestions or any material that you wish to make public on these pages.
Memorial to the victims of WWII (Cigand) Tomb of Laszlo Revai-Roth (Budapest)
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