Appendix 3 The story of the Csengery Street massacre

Late morning Horthy’s radio proclamation had a very different effect on the Jewish tenants and the janitors. According to Mrs. Lajos Steiner née Olga Mitzaki’s testimony, Mrs. Strucky started to cry: “[T]he janitor woman and her daughter cried and they said that they would have rather endured the bombings than the Russians.” The Jewish tenants decided to keep guard, and according to Miklós Bodor “a former army officer had a sword and someone else had a bayonet but these were long gone before the Germans arrived.”