CHRONICLE

1924 Febr. 18 I was born

1924 Dec. Moved to Kisvarda

1937 July Moved to Budapest

1938 Aug. Started to learn trade

1940 May Father to Labour Force Camp

1942 June 13 Meet Ibolya Rosner

1942 April Father in the Camp and to Russia

1943/1944 Volunteer Fireman

1944 May 8 Drafted into the Labour Force Camp

1944 June 1 Ibolya drafted into the Labour Force Camp

1944 Oct. 15 Escape from Labour Camp

1944 Oct. 25 to 1945 Jan. 15 Hiding in Budapest

1944 Dec. Mother and sister hiding on the farm

1945 Jan. 15 Liberated and taken to P.O.W. camp

1945 Jan/March In P.O.W. camps in Hungary

1945 Apr. 1 Arrive P.O.W. camp in Ukraine

1945 Apr. 4 Ibolya being killed on her 22nd birthday

1945 Apr. 15 Start to work in the stone mine

1945 Dec. Became sick. Infirmary

1946 March Out of Infirmary. Maintenance Unit

1947 Jan. P.O.W. camp in Kurszk City

1947 May 27 P.O.W. camp in Kiev City

1947 June 1 Going home to Hungary

1947 June 11 Last camp in Debrece

1947 June 13 Home as a free man

1947 Aug. 1 In the Health Spa

1947 Aug. 23 Going to Kisvarda

1947 Dec. 26 Unsuccessful attempt to leave Hungary

1948 March Meet Geza Kocsis

1948 Dec. 2 Graduated University courses

1948 Dec.8 Work in Tata City

1949 June 13 Transfer to Debrecen City

1949 Dec. Transfer to Budapest

1950 April Change name to VERTES

1951 Aug. 20 Engaged

1952 Jan. 12 Married

1952 June/Sept. Army reservist training

1955 Febr. Key to our apartment

1955 Apr. 13 George was born

1956 Oct./Nov. Hungarian uprising

1956 Nov. 28 Unsuccessful attempt to leave Hungary

1956 Dec. 5 Left Hungary

1956 Dec. 5 to 1957 June 11 In Refugee camps: Vienna, Kornajburg

1957 June 13 Flew to New York City, arrived in Montreal

1957 Aug. 20 Work in the shoe factory

1958 May 1 Moved to Barclay Street

1959 June My mother arrived from Israel

1960 March Mother left Montreal

1962 Sept. 14 Became Canadian Citizen

1965 May 1 Moved to Bourret Ave.

1967 Summer EXPO in Montreal

1968 May 4 George Bar-Mitzwa

1968 July 10 My first trip to Israel

1972 July Family trip to Israel

1977 July 25th anniversary trip to Hawaii

1977 Dec. Visit my mother in Israel

1978 July Trip to Spain

1978 Sept. George engaged

1979 Febr. 13 My father-in-law died

1979 May George married and moved to Toronto

1980 July 13 Mother died; went to Israel

1982 Jan. 20 Moved to our condominium

1984 July Trip to London and Paris

1986 March Trip to Jamaica

1986 Jan. Shoe factory bankrupt

1986 May 29 Gregory was born

1986 July Two weeks in Florida

1989 Febr. 18 Retired

1989 Aug. 3 Jaclyn was born

1990 Jan. 16 My father died in Budapest

1993 Jan./March Vera retired. First winter in Florida

1993 Febr. 15 Alex was born

1995 May With Vera in Israel and Budapest

1996 July Trip to Switzerland. Megev