The Map
From Tiszabogdány to Los Angeles
Every site below is placed from a record or from testimony, not from memory of a street name.
Budapest is the centre of this map, because Helen was sent there in late 1943 and it is the reason she lived: the household she was left with, the yellow-star house, the route of the march. But it reaches well past the city in both directions: out to the village on the Tisza, to the ghetto and the transport, to the camps and the subcamps, to the roads Tibi and Eva were marched along, and then through the displaced-persons camps to the ship in 1947 and the cities that came after.
Click a pin for the record behind it. Drag to move, scroll to zoom. Open the map full screen.
An address is only on this map if a document put it there: a registration card, a directory entry, a deportation record, a testimony that names the street. Where the record gives a building and the family memory gives a different one, both are noted rather than reconciled.
