{"id":962,"date":"2015-11-13T10:17:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T09:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad-dialoguesange.org\/?p=962"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:51:20","slug":"gitta-mallasz-juste-parmi-les-nations-documents-et-temoignages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad-dialoguesange.org\/en\/gitta-mallasz-juste-parmi-les-nations-documents-et-temoignages\/","title":{"rendered":"Gitta Mallasz, Righteous Among the Nations: Documents and Testimonies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"L'ancien
The former Katalin convent, on the heights of Buda, transformed into a "war factory" in 1944 (Photo Panos Vyras)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The website dialogues with the angel {documents}<\/a> publishes the story of the steps that allowed Gitta Mallasz to be recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" for her action as "commander" of the war factory of Katalin<\/a> from June to December 1944. Thanks to her courage and sagacity, the \u201cscribe of the angels\u201d was thus able to save a hundred Jewish women and children.<\/p>\n

While the deportation of Hungarian Jews to the death camps continued with an efficiency never achieved before, Gitta Mallasz agreed, on a voluntary basis, to become commander of a clothing factory for the Hungarian army whose workers were Jewish. The factory had been set up in a former convent in Buda by a Catholic priest, Father Klinda. It was placed under the protection of the Hungarian ministry of the army and the nunciature and benefited from extraterritoriality, which guaranteed its security, until the coming to power of the Hungarian Nazis in October 1944, who suspected pot roses. It was a bewildering situation: victims worked under the protection of the allies of their executioners... with a commander who enforced military discipline and at the same time, with two friends, Hanna and Lili, collected angelic messages in a cabin in the middle. of the garden. The most incredible will be reached when, on December 2, the Hungarian Nazis having invaded the factory, the workers escaped with the help of the German SS men who lived in the neighboring property thanks to a stratagem by the commander.<\/p>\n

\"Andrea
Andrea Mallasz, little niece of Gitta, receives the title of Righteous on May 13, 2012 in Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We owe Monique Guillemin the initiative to request the status of \u201cRighteous\u201d for Gitta because, she explains, \u201cher books had helped her a lot in difficult periods of her life\u201d. To help her compile this dossier, she was lucky enough to find a Hungarian, a former resistance fighter in Grenoble, Imre Boc<\/a>. The development of the dossier took them two years (2007-2009). The beginnings were difficult, the history of Katalin being unknown to the official services. Finally, they came into contact with the niece of Father Klinda who communicated to them the file which had allowed her uncle to be recognized as Righteous, then found two women who had stayed as children in Katalin and agreed to testify. The request was sent on April 16, 2009 and the response arrived on May 12, 2011. ceremony<\/a>, very moving, was held in Paris on May 13, 2012 at the Coll\u00e8ge des Bernardins.<\/p>\n

Other testimonies have since been discovered:<\/p>\n

\u2013 that of Susanna Erbstein, who recounts the first incursion of the Hungarian Nazis into the factory (there were two) and how an intervention \u2013 in extremis \u2013 of the nunciature, saved them from deportation. His testimony appears in a book devoted to his father, Ern\u00f6 Erbstein, a figure in European football before and after the war.<\/p>\n

\"Extrait
Extract the list of women working in Katalin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2013 that of Andreas Rusznyak, then eight years old, who also recounts how he experienced the first descent of the \u201cArrow Crosses\u201d and managed to escape from them with girls of his age. Andreas is the son ofErzsebet Rusznyak<\/a>, who will work after the war with Gitta.<\/p>\n

Francoise Maupin<\/p>\n

To read in Gitta Mallasz, Righteous Among the Nations<\/a> :<\/p>\n