The presentation of the works, the Jury’s decision and the Award Ceremony took place in the Győr Synagogue on 19 April 2024.
Memories of Jews in Győr and its neighbourhood
Their fate – our history
The Jewish Roots in Győr Public Charity Foundation launched the competition in 2022, in which 11 teams of three students each from 8 secondary schools in Győr and its surroundings submitted their written research report and related artwork.
The contest ended on 19 April 2024 with a presentation day at the Győr Synagogue, where the teams gave a presentation on the results of their research.
The first prize was awarded to the team from the Kazinczy Ferenc High School and College in Győr, whose members, Zsombor Harai, Áron Takács and Anna Boldizsár, with the support of Ildikó Pintér, history teacher, presented the life of Jewish students who once attended the predecessor of Kazinczy, the Count Albert Apponyi Girls’ High School. They also studied the life and work of Dr Ignác Kovács, a former Kazinczy teacher of Jewish origin, and made a documentary film about him as a work of art.
The jury gave second place to Lili Flinger, Anna Hordós and Dorottya Kispál from the Czuczor Gergely Benedictine High School in Győr, supported by Tamás Cséfalvay, a history teacher. Their main topic was the fate of the Jewish students of the Benedictine High School during the time of the Holocaust. Their further research focused on the life of the martyred Bishop Vilmos Apor. They created paintings for their work of art.
The third place students of the Pannonhalma Benedictine Secondary School, Levente Deák, Máté Drozdik and Tibor Barnabás Sepsi, under the professional guidance of Tamás Németh, history teacher, dealt with the fate of the Jewish secondary school students murdered in Győr in 1944. A special presentation was made of the press coverage of the Jewish community in Győr between 1935 and 1945. Their creative work is a three-dimensional design of a Holocaust memorial.
In line with the call for entries, a prize was also awarded to the best technical school team. This prize was won by the team of the SZC Pattantyús-Ábrahám Géza Technikum in Győr, consisting of Levente Bekő, Bálint Burkus and Levente Csíkász, supported by history teacher Melinda Kazóné Kardos. Their research covered the history of the Graboplast factory, founded by the Jewish Grab family, and the life and work of Imre Pattantyús-Ábrahám, a Jewish lifesaver from Győr honoured by the title ‘Righteous Among the Nations’. A film was made on the history of the Győr Synagogue.
The winning team will present their work to participants from 13 countries at the Jewish Roots in Győr World Reunion on 5 July 2024 in Győr.
RESULTS
1st place
Kazinczy Ferenc High School and College team – Anna Boldizsár, Zsombor Harai, Áron Takács Tádé. Supporting teacher: Ildikó Pintér
Second place
Team of Czuczor Gergely Benedictine High School and College – Lili Flinger, Anna Hordós, Dorottya Kispál. Supporting teacher: Tamás Cséfalvay
3rd place
Pannonhalmi Bencés High School team – Levente Deák, Máté Dániel Drozdik, Tibor Barnabás Sepsi. Supporting teacher: Tamás Németh
Best Technical School
Team of Pattantyús-Ábrahám Géza Technikum – Bekő Levente, Burkus Bálint, Csikász Levente. Supporting teacher: Kazóné Kardos Melinda
Further teams in alphabetical order:
- Baksa Kálmán Bilingual Secondary School team – Zsófi Antal Enikő, Zita Horváth, Luca Mecséri Blanka. Supporting teacher: Dr. Attila Szilárd Tar
- Hunyadi János Technical School team – Kozalk Judit Orsolya, Orosz Luca, Sinkai Regina. Supporting teacher: Balázs Szalay
- Lukács Sándor Automotive and Mechanical Engineering Technical School and College team – Marcell Felsővári, Botond Gábor, Bence Kassai-Schmuck. Supporting teacher: Veronika Vincze
- Pannonhalmi Benedictine High School team – Ambrus Bertalan Barcza, Attila Farkas Schrődl, Vilmos Vida. Supporting teacher: Judit Csertán
- Pannonhalmi Benedictine High School team – Benedek Gutowski, Gellért László, György Róka-Madarász. Supporting teacher: Judit Csertán
- Révai Miklós High School team – Emma Csizmazia, Sára Herczeg, Leona Kovács. Supporting teacher: Artúr Ladich
- Révai Miklós High School team – Belecz Helka, Csuppely Jana Jázmin, Hegyi Flóra. Supporting teacher: Artúr Ladich
The aim was to raise interest among local young people in the past of the Jewish community in and around Győr. A deeper understanding of this common past will ensure a more tolerant, open, cohesive and forward-looking future for all of us.
The call for entries can be found here in Hungarian only: