As photographed by Paul Nagy while traveling in an open railroad car, two fellow soldiers also endure a six-day ride from Russia back to Hungary for the sake of enjoying a brief furlough.

Furlough Trip to Hungary, 1943

Born to a well assimilated Jewish family of Budapest during 1921, growing anti-Semitism convinced Aniko to emigrate to Palastine in 1939. Rumors of the Holocaust prompted her to secretly return to Hungary in 1944, with the help of the British intelligence service. She planned to gather information and attempt to aid Jewish victims at Budapest. Szenes was promptly arrested by the authorities, tried as a spy, but she bravely revealed nothing, and was soon executed.

Hungarian Resistance Figure: Hannah Aniko Szenes 


This young man from the shores of the Tisza river loyally served on the Russian front with a Hungarian AA unit during 1941-1943. No relation to General Vilmos Nagy, he participated in the fighting retreat through Hungary until the end of the war and was taken POW in 1945.
