Karl Zelikovits: da Miskolc a Bergen-Belsen ad Auschwitz

The essay reconstructs the story of Karl Zelikovits, an Hungarian rabbi victim of the Shoah. Zelikovits stayed for a long time in Rijeka and Rome. In 1944, he helped a group of Jewish families from Rijeka, including Goti Herskovits Bauer, to escape deportation, providing them with fake documents and finding them refuge in Italy, in Viserba. When the situation became too dangerous, Zelikovits attempted with them to escape to Switzerland. But the outcome was, for everyone, including Zelikovits, tragic. They were all arrested at Ponte Stresa, and they were taken to extermination camps: only Goti Herskovits Bauer survived, who today is the only person in the world who can still tell us about Karl Zelikovits, who died in Auschwitz in 1944.