Tributes flow for Judith Nagy z”l

More than 70 comments of tribute were shared within 24 hours on a Sydney Jewish Museum Facebook post last week that announced the passing of and reflected on the life and legacy of Holocaust survivor and museum volunteer, Judith Nagy (nee Elias), who died late last year.

Born an only child in 1935 in Budapest, Nagy’s father was taken away in 1942 and did not return.

In October 1944, when nine, Nagy was forced into the Budapest ghetto with her mother, grandmother and grandfather.

“I walked to the ghetto with my doll under my arm,” she later recalled. “It is something you never forget.”

She’d described nights spent lying on the hard floor of a crowded room, surrounded by women, children and the elderly, and how food was scarce.