Dr. Emil Kellermann (Villány, 1896 – 1945) was a well-known physician and a talented self-taught painter. He lived in a house at 3 Felsőmalomutca in Pécs with his wife and two children. They were taken together to the ghetto in and around the MÁV tenement house and then to the concentration camp set up in the Lakits barracks. Here, more than five thousand Jews from Pécs and the surrounding area awaited their fate, crammed into sheds, starving and lacking even the minimum sanitary conditions. The train deporting the Jews of Pécs left on 4 July 1944. It left the Hungarian border on 6 July and arrived at the Birkenau ramp on 8 July. Here the family was separated. Seven-year-old Katalin and her mother were at once killed in one of the gas chambers. But Emil and his 14-year-old son, István were sorted into the ranks of the able-bodied. On 27 October they were transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau to KL Dachau. The father died in one of the Kaufering subcamps on 23 February 1945. István survived the ordeal and the death of his father. However, his weakened body could not cope with the epidemic that broke out after the liberation of the camp and he died on 25 May 1945.