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27 January - International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Tomas Munk was born on January 29, 1924, in Budapest, the first son of Frantisek and Gizela. The Munk family converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1939. Before their conversion, they were atheists. In the mid-1930s, Tomas began to take an interest in the Catholic faith. He was baptized in 1939 in Ružomberok, Slovakia. In 1943, Tomas entered the Jesuit novitiate in Ružomberok. 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. Tomas 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 Frantisek 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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