PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The Germans and their collaborators killed as many as 1.5 million children, including over a million Jewish children. Thousands of children were shot at the edge of the mass graves. Many more children were killed in medical experiments.
Agnes, the daughter of Eugene and Ilona Ringwald, lived in the town of Pestszenterzsebet, Hungary. Agnes's father was a medical doctor. The town's 4,522 Jewish citizens were mostly laborers, but some were businessmen, lawyers, and doctors. A Jewish school had been established in 1922.
In March 1944, when Agnes was an eight year-old schoolgirl, the Germans invaded Hungary and immediately set into action their plan for the destruction of all Hungarian Jewry. Forced to wear the yellow star and herded into sealed-off ghettos, the Jews of Hungary refused to believe that they would be sent to concentration camps and to their deaths. At eight and a half years old Agnes and her mother were immediately taken to the gas chambers and murdered.
