Sara Salkahazi was born on the 11th of May 1899 in Kassa (an area now part of Slovakia) in Austria. Sara was a Hungarian Modernist Religious sister; she became a member of the Sisters of Social Service in 1929. She helped save thousands of Jewish lives during the final months of World War 2. She did this by opening the Working Girls Homes to provide a safe place for Jews. Sara died on the 27th of December in 1944. This is the anniversary of her martyrdom. Before saving thousands of Jews in World War 2, she earned an elementary school teacher degree, and only taught in a school for a year, she then worked as a bookbinders apprentice and later became a journalist. She edited the official paper of the National Christian Socialist Party of Czechoslovakia. For a few months she was engaged but called off the marriage to become a religious sister. In 1929 she became a member of the Sisters of Social Service in Budapest. She took her first vows of Pentecost in 1930 and worked as …show more content…
a social worker, community leader and server of the poor. During the Nazi era Sara opened the Working Girls homes to provide a safe haven for the Jews persecuted by the Hungarian Nazi party. In 1943 she smuggled a female Jewish refugee and her son from Slovakia, disguised in the habit to a temporary house in Budapest. She saved hundreds in the final months of the war, she was now the national director of the Hungarian Catholic Working Women’s Movement. Sara secretly made a formal pledge to God in presence of her superior to sacrifice herself if no one else was harmed. Sara brought many Jews from Slovakia to the sister’s houses in either Budapest or Kassa. Other religious sisters relied on Sara to go out to the Ghettos and bring people out to the homes to escape being removed off to death camps. She kept hiding additional groups of refugees in the various homes, with very dangerous circumstances. The sisters provided them with food and supplies; this became more and more complicated every day. What Sara was doing was very riskful, there were chances that Nazi officers could find the homes and kill everyone she had saved. She was willing to put forward her own life to save the lives of everyone else (the Jews and Sisters). Sara had a large roll during World War 2; she credited herself for saving the lives of 100 Jewish people, and her community saving 1,000.
Along with all the risks involved she did everything she could to keep Jewish people (women and children in particular) safe from the Hungarian Nazi Party. On the 27th of December 1944, The Hungarian Nazi Arrow Cross Party found were Sara had been keeping the Jews and arrested all the people she had saved and sent them back to ghettos. Sara wasn’t at the house at the time, but chose to return although she had the chance to flea. They arrested Salkahazi along with 4 other Jewish women and a Christian co-worker and lined them up along the Danube River; they were all shot and thrown into the river. Sara accepted her sacrifice; before she was shot she knelt down and signed herself with the cross. To this day, Sara Salkahazi is remembered as a hero of the war, She was the first martyr to not only save many persecuted Jewish people but also her religious
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