Aunt Sári’s Letter: How a Young Woman Saw (and Did Not See) the Holocaust and the Siege of Budapest

Abstract Presented here is the translation of a letter written in Budapest in November 1944, shortly before the beginning of the siege of the Hungarian capital by Soviet and Romanian troops. The letter describes the everyday struggles of a middle-class Christian family, the (naive?) ideas of a 21-year-old woman who worked at the Hungarian Supreme Court, and how she witnessed the Holocaust and the war.