Krisztina Lukách

I can retell about the provenance and origins of my family only on the basis of family stories because unfortunately I knew personally only my maternal grandmother among my grandparents, the others had died well before my birth. Our family comes from Upper-Hungary, I knew the relatives who lived there, yes, we visited Lőcse (Levoča), Besztercebánya (Banská Bystrica) where we could see even the old houses of the family. The great-grandparents on my mother’s side had lived in Fadd, my grandmother came to Pest as a worker girl. So my mother was born here. In her childhood she was raised in the countryside, too, but later she went to school in Pest and she also found job here. My parents were engaged at Christmas 1949. Then my father worked at Ganz Factory as deputy head of the Framing Department, my mother worked for the Hungarian Radio. Q: Was she a music editor? A: At the Music Department, yes, she was an editor and the secretary of the department. Q: Do you mind to tell the name of your parents? A: My father is Tamás Lukách, my mother is Éva Szűcs. They had an appartment in a calm part of the XIIth district, in one of the side streets of Böszörményi út, from the very beginning. It is there where I continue to live even today. In those days this area used to be homely garden suburb and it has in great part its original character. Later the cohesion and atmosphere of this area gave me a great support. Q: Did you buy this appartment? A: Well, it was rented. It was an average state appartment, it wasn’t big, one room with all modern conveniences. Unfortunately many years passed when finally also a child was born. It was me, I was born on August 24, 1956. And it was rather unsure wether I could stay in life with my 1500 gramms, because I was born in the seventh month. Thus immediately after my birth I was moved from Rókus Hospital to Madarász Street Hospital in order to not worsen the statistics, my prospected death fitted the miscarriaged of Madarász lots better.