Excerpt from Zalán Biczó’s work titled “Encyclopedia of Teachers and Instructors in Győr”
This post is part of a series. Zalán Biczó, local historian and librarian at Széchenyi István University in Győr, has recently published encyclopaedias based on extensive research, which provide basic information – still accessible today – on the lives and work of doctors, teachers, lawyers and engineers who lived and worked in Győr before the Second World War.
We are grateful to Zalán Biczó for compiling, at our request, a list of individuals who were most likely of Jewish origin; we are publishing this list below, where it can be read or downloaded in PDF format.
In doing so, we wish to pay tribute to these outstanding figures of the former Jewish community.
“In the encyclopedia of teachers in Győr, I commemorate nearly 500 educators: from the woodworking and metalworking school, the science high school, the girls’ high school, the boys’ and girls’ higher commercial schools, the crafts apprenticeship school, the lower secondary and middle schools for girls and boys, etc. In addition to these, teachers from state and religious (Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, and Reformed) elementary schools are also included in this biographical encyclopedia.” — writes Zalán Biczó in the encyclopedia’s preface.
We are grateful to the author for compiling, at our request, a list of teachers of Jewish descent, which can be read here and even downloaded in PDF format (Hungarian only).
The encyclopedia is available primarily from the author (biczo.zalan@gmail.com, 06 30 773 4230) or at the Lokálpatrióta bookstore in Győr (9024 Győr, Baross utca 4.).