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| Gitta Mallász |
Mallász?s great-granddaughter, Andrea Mallász, accepted the posthumous acknowledgment from Samuel Ravel, first secretary at the Israeli embassy.
The ceremony at the College des Bernardins was attended by about 300 invited guests, among them the chairman of the Rench Yad Vashem Committee Jean-Raphael Hirsch, head of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions Richard Prasquier, Hungarian ambassador to France László Trócsányi and director of the Hungarian Institute in France Balázs Ablonczy.
Anne-Marie Revcolevschi of Yad Vashem said Mallász had saved more than a hundred Jewish women and children in 1944.
Trócsanyi said the heroic acts of Mallász and others like her had to become part of the Hungarian national consciousness.
Mallász lived in France from 1960 until her death in 1992. There she gained fame as the writer of Talking With Angels, a work that is at once philosophical, religious and poetic. Among the book?s biggest promoters is the Oscar-wining actress Juliette Binoche, who was among the guests at the ceremony in Paris.
There are 764 Hungarians among the some 24,000 Righteous of the Nations at Yad Vashem.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
