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27 January - International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Tomas Munk was born in Budapest on January 29, 1924, the first son of a Frantisek and Gizela. The Family Munk were Jewish converts to Catholicism in 1939. They were atheists prior to their conversions. In the mid-1930s, Tomas began having an interest in the Catholic faith. He was baptized in 1939 in the city of Ruzomberok, Slovakia. Tomáš entered the Jesuit novitiate in Ružomberok in 1943. Due to the Nazi ideology against Jewish people, the Munk family were captured by Nazis at the end of 1944. Frantisek and his wife Gizela, together with their sons Tomas and Juraj, were sent to a concentration camp. They were later separated and sent on three different trains to Germany. Gizela and Juraj were deported to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Tomáš and his father were sent to the concentration camp Sachsenhausen and were shot during a “death march” on April 22. Tomas was 21 years of age and Frantiske was 49. Vatican Radio reported that on the night before his arrest, Tomas decided to offer his life to God for the salvation of his country. |
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