Sándor Fleischmann 1909 - 1945

Born 12.2.1909 in Šurany
Died 8.2.1945 in Gusen

Biography

Sándor was born to Aron Fleischman and his wife Filipka in 1909. He was the second child in the family of a tailor and a dressmaker. There were six children born between 1906 and 1915. Their father enlisted the Austro-Hungarian Army in WWI. The family lived very modest life in Surány, a small town in Hungary. Since 1918 the area became part of the Czechoslovakia.

Sándor learned the profession from his father, became an excellent tailor. In 1930 he served in the Czechoslovak Army, after the obligatory military service he lived in Surány again. Together with the father and the younger brother Endre they worked as tailors; mostly for the employees (clerks) of a huge sugar factory there in Surány. In the thirties they took a credit and built a family house.

In 1938 Sándor married a pretty lady from the Hungary and in 1941 their son János was born. Since 1943 everything was wrong. Sándor’s sister died, left a small baby called Iván. Sándor’s wife Hermin took care of the baby Iván together with her son János. Soon, in 1944, Jews from that area were deported first into a fortress in Komárom, from there to KZ Auschwitz. At the time of deportation Sándor was 35, his wife Hermin 30, his son János three, the small orphan nephew Iván two and the Sándor’s father 64. All of them perished.

Thanks the Mauthausen Memorial we know that Sándor Fleischman, a talented son of the Fleischman family, smart, perfect tailor, father, a progressive oriented person left his life in Gusen aged 36 years only – in the best age of a man. The hate broke his life, made him slave and killed him.

Jiřina Fleischmanová, niece

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