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These pages contain names found in books which have a genealogical relevance. In most cases, the names are people's last names or place names.

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Title	CHASING SHADOWS - Memories of a Vanished World
Author	Rabbi Hugo Gryn with Naomi Gryn
Publisher and ISBN	Viking Press (Penguin Books) in 2000 (ISBN 0-670-88793-5)
Price	£ 16.99
Comments	Rabbi Hugo Gryn (25th June 1930 to 18th August 1996) was born in the Carpathian town of Berehovo which was in Czechoslovakia.

Memoir recalling childhood spent in Berehovo and experiences on deportation to Auschwitz.  This is a moving book based on a narrative which Naomi Gryn discovered after her father's death.
 

Information mentioned about the following villages:

Czechoslovakian name	Hungarian name
Berehovo	Beregszaz
Silce	Beregkisfalud
Vary	Vari
Sevlus	Naguszollos
Feketeerdo

Berehovo is approximately 50 miles NE of Debrecen which is about 100 miles E of Budapest.
 
 

Principal surnames mentioned for the above villages:

Adler	Gryn	Katz	Neuwelt	Stern
Czuker	Hirschz	Kont	Reisman	Teller
Donath	Horvat	Kroh	Rosner	Vag
Feher	Jakubovics	Lebovics	Schonfeld	Vari
Gonda	Kain	Lefkovits	Schwartz	Winkler
Gross	Kardos	Neiman	Sebos
Grosz	Karpati	Neufeld	Sos

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