Children of Saul

Kovács Ferenc

Szegvár, 20 June 1936 – Auschwitz-Birkenau, 27 June 1944

Ferenc lived in Szegvár, Southern Hungary, with his family, went to primary school. On 16 May 1944, the local Jews were rounded up in the village and a few days later they were escorted by the gendarmes to the ghetto in Minden. From there they were taken to the Szeged collection camp in mid-June, from where they were deported after a week. Ferenc was put on a train to KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and gassed immediately after his arrival.