Eva has left us

A second-generation survivor – 1948-2024

The sad news touches us deeply. Eva Monastersky (Angel, Egri) passed away in California on February 9th of this year. Eva, a great mother and grandmother, a highly respected medical social worker in her active life, was a keen follower of the news of the World Reunion to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from Győr and the Győr region.

She has shared her family story with us back in April 2022, which reveals the Győr-Sövényháza origins of her mother, Zsuzsi néni, and she has also generously donated to the Jewish Roots in Győr Foundation.

We are very sad that she will no longer be able to attend the Győr Reunion and sincerely mourn her together with her family, daughters, grandchildren and brother who remember their Mother with the below lines.

EVA

ELIZABETH 

MONASTERSKY

12/29/1948  –  2/9/2024

In memory of our beautiful mother and grandmother. 

Eva will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

We love you bigger than the sky.

IMMORTALITY

Do not stand
          By my grave, and weep.
    I am not there,
          I do not sleep —
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the day transcending night.
    Do not stand
          By my grave, and cry —
    I am not there,
          I did not die.

—  Clare Harner, December 1934

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