Wrenching journey: Seeking the site of my great-grandmother’s death

I. Desolation 2012 I travelled to a region of Hungary where no tourist goes. It is nigh impossible to convey the desolation of this region, just north of Hungary’s second largest city, Miskolc, and stretching toward the Slovakian border. Despite what news we’re fed about the successes of the EU, Europe is not equally prosperous. Far from it. I travelled to this depressed region to track down the final resting place of my great-grandmother, known to me as Shaindel “Jenny” Marcus. (What could the Jenny be short for, I wondered? Jennifer is certainly not a traditional Hungarian name. After a fair amount of online research I got no further; it was only when I saw her death certificate that I learned her Hungarian name, the […]