Children of Saul

Tamás Kardos

Debrecen, 27 January 1928 – KL Dachau Aussenlagerkomplex Mühldorf, Waldlager V, 1 January 1945

Tamás lived with his parents in Berettyóújfalu, he was a student at the high school. In May 1944 the family was deported to the local ghetto by the Hungarian gendarmes. From there they were deported to the collection camp in Nagyvárad (Oradea), from where they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 June 1944. On 27 July 1944, he was sent to the Aussenlagerkomplex Mühldorf (Waldlager V) of the Dachau concentration camp, where he died of the ordeal he had endured. According to the camp register, the official cause of his death was ‘heart failure’ (Herzschwӓche).