Haiman György (szerk.): Kner Imre emléke 1890-1990 (Békéscsaba–Gyomaendrőd, 1990)

Chronological Table

April 5,1944 - was interned in the first days of German occupation and taken first to the Budapest transit prison, after to Nagykanizsa, later to Sárvár.

May 19, 1944 - at Sárvár he was delivered to the Germans (after Mihály Kner’s records).

June 1944-Imre Kner’s mother, wife and daughter were deported to Auschwitz. Only his daughter Zsuzsa returned in June 1945.

April 1945 - Mauthausen prisoners were sent on foot to Günskirchen. Imre Kner fell out and the guards killed him (according to an eyewitness Mór Vas, former bookseller in Budapest, and old friend of the family).

December 6, 1945: Mihály Kner commited suicide at Gvoma.

1957 — a collection of essays by Imre Kner “A könyv művészete” (Book art) appeared, with a content in conformity with his “spiritual will” of 26 January 1942 left to György Haiman.

1972 - the second edition was published of the above with a subtitle “a book to be written but maybe never completed”.

June 7, 1973 - Zsuzsa Kner died in Budapest.

1982 — on the 100th anniversary of the Kner Printing House a monument was inaugurated at Gyoma to Izidor and Imre Kner. Beside the relief portraits a quotation of Imre Kner tells about his principles in life: “The sense of my life is not being a printer but serv ing”.

(Fordította Dobos Lídia)

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