Sándor Markovits – Testimony of survival

A testimony. Sándor (Sámuel) Markovits born in Újpest, Hungary. During the war he was taken away for forced labour. Afterwards he bacame a Soviet prisoner of war. He survived the Holocaust, but his family - wife and parents - were perished. In his life he rarely spoke about the depths of his pain and struggles, he was silent to some extent about his past. He did not even want to "bother" his son, Tamás Markovits about his past, because he really thought he had a new life; and the life before the war - given naturally- was gone and would never come back. Only in the late 1980s, Éva Markovits, his granddaughter to whom he started telling - by himself, not after having questioned - the story of his life, his secrets and means of survival.