Kálmán Ferenczfalvi

Kálmán Ferenczfalvi (born March 15, 1921 in Debrecen , Hungary ; † April 8, 2005 in Debrecen) was a so-called " Righteous Among the Nations " from Hungary.

The young Kálmán Ferenczfalvi, 1946

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Kálmán Ferenczfalvi (née Faber), only 23 years old in 1944, was shocked by the deportation of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, organized by German Nazis and carried out by Hungarian forces . He wasn't afraid for himself, only for those who were innocently persecuted. He saved the lives of over 2000 people. In order to save the persecuted Jews and slave laborers from the death marches and deportation, Ferenczfalvi, then a supply officer in the Hungarian army , did not shrink from abusing the military seal or from founding a phantom unit. He forged pay books, food bills and bilingual open orders, and smuggled inmates from assembly camps and ghettos under the roof of his horse-drawn cart. Since he brought the first Jewish family into his parental home, he not only endangered himself but also his own family.

After the war, Ferenczfalvi was an accountant for various state-owned companies and remained silent about his actions for decades. By chance a former forced laborer rescued by Ferenczfalvi "discovered" him and made his self-sacrificing deeds known. Shortly afterwards, numerous people from Europe, America and Australia testified to his rescue operations. Kálmán Ferenczfalvi was honored on June 2, 1988 in Jerusalem by the Yad Vashem with the title Righteous Among the Nations and with an olive tree in the Memorial Park.

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• New York Times : Kalman Ferenczfalvi Dies at 84 April 14, 2005
• Yad Vashem : The Righteous Among The Nations: Ferenczfalvi Kálmán (1921-2005) (file number M.31.2 / 3741)
• Horváth, László: A gyöngyösi zsidóság története. Mátra Múzeum Gyöngyös, 1999, p. 79
• Szita, Szabolcs: A zsidók üldöztetése Budapest 1944-1945. In: Holocaust Füzetek 1994/4. Edited by Magyar Auschwitz Alapítvány - Holocaust Documentációs Központ, Budapest 1994, p. 54