Zsidósors Délkelet-Dunántúlon a XVIII. századtól a holocaustig (Kaposvár, 1994)

Szili Ferenc: Somogy megye második világháborús zsidó áldozatainak községsoros névjegyzéke és főbb adatai

assume a Jew’s lot. In the volume we publish one of the chapters of the book in which those tragic days come to life, the days that the Jews packed in the ghetto of Kaposvár experienced. We can follow them alongside the road where only a few could return from. From Kaposvár to the death factory of Auschwitz. The chapter published in the volume was presented by the author in Kaposvár on June 26, 1994 at a scholarly memory conference in front of a good number of audience.

Nyíri Tamás: Appeasement and reconciliation

In his lecture the renowned professor of teology both remembers and reminds us all of the holocaust. He emphasises not only the responsibility of the murderers but also the omissions of the majority of the Christian population. We do not have to hanker after excuses - although there were truly some - but instead, we must investigate what the individual and the churches could have done for the defense of the Jews. According to the author, the truth of Ehe Wiesels sentence cannot be denied; „The meditating Christian knows that in Auschwitz it is not the Jewish people that died but Christianity.” Our duty is not to judge but to feel - all of us have to feel in his or her own was - the weight of this historical burden. Then he raises the question whether it is possible to come to terms with this terrible burden of sin and tribulation. One cannot forget, but there must be a healing to come, both the Jew and the Christian must strive for reconciliation. The wounds must not be forgotten, nor must they hf» tom up again, but instead they must be healed by mutual efforts.

Szili Ferenc: The name-list and the main data of the Jewish victims in Somogy county during World War 2 according to the villages they lived in was put together by Szili Ferenc. The terror of the holocaust is well demonstrated by the nearly 4,000 victims listed by name. The scarce archival sources and the imperfect memory of data-providers did not make it possible to record all of the victims by name.

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