Dávid Herschkovits and his wife were married in 1913 in Hajdúnánás. Later they moved to Miskolc and they lived at 55 Vörösmarty Street. In the spring of 1944, the 56-year-old head of the family and his 47-year-old wife, Berta Tziment were crammed into the Miskolc ghetto with their seven children. The ghetto was evacuated on 5 June, when they were driven to the Tatar Street brickworks, from where deportation trains left for Auschwitz-Birkenau between 12 and 15 June. Most of the Miskolc Jews were killed on arrival. Among them were the Herschkovits parents and the 16-year-old Judit, 15-year-old László, 13-year-old Miklós, five-year-old Noémi and two-year-old Tamás. The older siblings, the 22-year-old Ernő and 19-year-old Béla were selected for forced labor and sent to other concentration camps. At least one of them survived.