Retrieving the name of one Holocaust victim

PASSOVER EDITION 5775 SECTION A PAGE 10 how long may the report of a pistol be heard? For most people, less than a second. For Connie Christiansen Gallagher, a lifetime. She remembers today with perfect clarity how a particular pistol shot sounded. She remembers the man — a Nazi militiaman who wore a feather in his hat — who fired the pistol. She remembers the victim — a Hungarian Jew named Andras Aczel, a close friend of her family — who was killed by the bullets fired by that pistol. She remembers the place: Her family’s 300-acre farm near the small town of Pomaz, a short distance north of Budapest. And she remembers the date, Dec. 5, 1944, nine months after the German Nazis invaded […]