András Székely

We had very serious financial difficulties, because we had no job. My mother and my grandmother immediately figured out that we would have to make a yellow star for sale. And how can it be painted? There was a so-called Victoria yellow floor paint that could be used to paint used sheets. The star had to be cut out of cardboard and the yellow fabric glued to it with a little glue. But the fact that it had to be worn remained somehow. There is a very memorable picture. I said we went to church every Sunday and we wore the yellow star and went to service the following Sunday, people were pointing their fingers to us.. Well, I stayed out of Catholicism.

I remember the moves to the yellow-star houses came very quickly and then we had to take action without Dad being at home. And my father’s uncle helped us, who was different from us in that he was a rich man. He helped us, for some reason he helped. We weren’t particularly in good relationship with them at all. Anyway, going far, the kids were fine, but the parents weren’t. I think he got us a flat in today's Ditrói Mór street, which was then Báró Aczél street. It’s actually just a house, one side is the Comedy Theater, the other side is a house. Ditrói Street three. There a lawyer named Székely - no matter how funny it sounds - lived in large three-room apartment and we got a room there. 1 room for the four of us, my mother, my grandmother, my sister and me. Another family moved into the same apartment. A bookseller with his wife and little daughter and all the books that had been piled up in the maid's room. But so. On top of which we sat and read from below, and there was a youth life in the yellow-star house.