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Rozsika Roth
Slain In Hungary
Satoraljaujhely, Hungary (JTA)
— Rozsika Roth survived World
War I, the Holocaust and more
than four decades of commu-
nism, only to be slain in her
home one Shabbat evening a
month before Rosh Hashanah.
The frail, 79-year-old woman,
renowned for her piety and a
mainstay of the tiny Jewish com-
munity in this northern Hun-
garian town that borders
Slovakia, died during a robbery
the night of Aug. 25.
Thieves apparently broke in
through a window, just hours af-
ter Ms. Roth had lit the candles
and served guests a Shabbat
meal of cholent, wine and fresh-
baked challah.
Her wrists had been bound
and her stockings had been
stuffed into her mouth behind
tape wrapped tightly around her
head. Her body appeared to be
bruised. Police said she choked
or suffocated to death.
Her rambling ground floor
apartment, with a mezuzah on
every doorpost, had been ran-
sacked. Clothes, ornaments, food
and linens were strewn every-
where; the bed was slashed open;
and pictures had been torn from
their frames.
Some reports said three young
men had been seen fleeing from
the crime scene. According to one
theory, the criminals had come
> from over the border, from Slo-
vakia or nearby Ukraine or Ro-
mania. Neighbors said they
heard nothing.
Weeks after the crime, there
have been no arrests, and police
were not sure whether anything
had actually been stolen because
valuable ritual items had not
> been touched. They believe that
the thieves had been looking for
money.
Some 4,000 Jews lived in
Satoraljaujhely before World
War II. Almost all were deport-
ed to Auschwitz in 1944.
Today, there are only half a
dozen Jews in the town of 20,000
> people.
Ms. Roth lost almost all her
family at Auschwitz, and she had
tattooed Auschwitz numbers on
her arm.
After the war, she returned to
the house she was born in— and
in which her grandfather, too,
had been born.
Ms. Roth lived a deeply reli-
gious life despite her isolation,
keeping strictly kosher and buy-
ing all her meat from a kosher
butcher who made his rounds
once every few weeks.
Although only one or two mur-
ders were reported each year in
the Satoraljaujhely area, news
reports of the crime stressed that
more and more elderly people liv-
ing alone were falling victim to
robbers.
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