Their Legacies Remain... “The people are no more – but their
legacies remain…” Ida Fink, “Ikvot,” Kol Hasipurim (All the
Stories) "Forlorn, so forlorn! From the Munkács community… that
used to make up half the town's population – only two whole
families remained. One, the Ungar Family, the watchmaker, whose
shop stood at the corner of the Latorica courtyard – the parents
and two sons returned. The second: our family, that is, my wife,
my son and me. None of the other families remained complete.
When we immigrated to Eretz Israel, only a few hundred Jews were
living in Munkács… (Eliyahu Rubin, Mimunkacz ad Auschwitz
[Hebrew], p. 52) The vast majority of the Jews of Munkács were
murdered. Only documents, testimonies, archival films, Pages of
Testimony and a handful of photos remain, that tell their
stories – testimony to the persecution of an entire Jewish
community. Rabbis, teachers and their students, tradesmen and
slave laborers – men, women and children. Every family, and
every name represents an entire wor