JUDITH SUSAN FEJES (GABOR)

Condolences & Memories (5 entries)

• Judy was a lovely person. Lydia and I are so privileged to have known her. She will alwyas be remembered in our hearts. My deepest sympathy to her family. Godspeed - Posted by: Cheryl Gork (Friend) on: Sep 10, 2014

• Judy was a good friend who I could call up to ask for assistance to do a shift and she did the same w/me. We had a steak supper together at last fund raiser for Cancer and had an enjoyable time there. I was so glad we could pray together when you were in the hospital. Judy, you have a wonderful family and it was a pleasure to meet them. Eternal blessings. Klara, I too lost my only sister some time ago. - Posted by: Carol Cariou (co-worker & friend) on: Nov 14, 2013

• I have known Judith since her birth as Judith Gabor. Most memorable events were escaping from Hungary crossing the swam of lake Ferto at night with her sister Klara and her parents Andor and Mary. The Austrian border guards indicated safe crossing the border with their flashlights from a distance for guiding us. The torturous walk took about 8 hours and the children with other refugee kids and our suitcases were taken by horse driven carts to a small village. The men and women had to walk and were full of slushy snow and mud slipping into the swamp on this night of December 19th, 1956. The wine parlor was converted into a temporary shelter straw beds on its wooden floor. We were served hot tea and a large slice of home made buttered bread in standing for there was no room for seats. We among the 5-6 dozen refugees laid side by side covered ourselves with horse blankets and fell asleep instantly. Next morning we were told that a bus will take us to a refugee camp. I did not want to be in a refugee camp nor did Andor, for we lived too long in forced labour camps. We were penniless but I had 100 dollar bill that my mother hid in her underwear during the Nazi era, which she gave me for going away present. So I took up our joint families and some friends of Mary and Andor to a regular bus and arrived to Vienna by noon. The men had to go to police headquarter for obtaining refugee statuses, the women and children were not needed and left in the park without food or drink in the cold winter day that stretched into the night. I spoke a little German and the officer asked me if we have a place to sleep and eat after we got our "Gray Book" a document of our visa and refugee status. I said no, we have no place to go, so he offered us in kindly tone the third floor of the county's jail which was a temporary abode for refugees. I thanked for his kind offer and we were all taken there by a police van into the night by that time. To be short men were separated from women and children body searched and locked up. Andor and I became panicky for we were treated roughly like criminals. Next morning we were finger printed locked up again, but were released by late afternoon. So there we were together again in a strange city in its dark outskirt with no building or people around. We saw a dim light in the distance. It was a small grocery store and the owner directed us toward downtown where we could find a streetcar that took refugees with gray cards free of charge. The Austrian government was very nice and people very helpful directing us to an abandoned school converted into a refugee camp run by the Canadian Red Cross. My family spent 6 weeks there sleeping on the floor like before. Andor Mary Judy and Klara and their friend were taken after 3 weeks to Canada. We were reunited after spending more than 3 months in a Holland refugee camp. Judy had a memorable experience full of hardships early in life, but it forged her and she was able to raise four children by herself. - Posted by: George Sagi (Uncle) on: Nov 13, 2013

• To Judith's family. May God bless you during this time and always. I want to share with the family the last moment I spent with Judith when a co-worker and I visited her at the Hospital on October 27, she talked with great love and affection about her family, her grandchildren and her cats. Judith will be deeply miss by her co-workers. Rest in peace Judith. - Posted by: Arleni (Co-worker ) on: Nov 12, 2013

• My sincere condolences to Judy's family. She will be sadly missed. Rest in peace Judy. - Posted by: Traci Reid (Friend) on: Nov 10, 2013