Drop in the Ocean

Hungarian law enforcement agencies earned a notorious reputation owing to their smooth and sometimes willing collaboration in the mass deportation of their Jewish compatriots in the summer of 1944. Only very few of these men defied the murderous spirit of time and attempted to help the persecuted. Police Sergeant Dezso Magyar story is exceptional and unrepresentative in this context: his rescue and resistance efforts were mounted during the deportations from the province of Szolnok. This is his true story about what he was willing to do for those he loved and considered friends.