These photographs survived the Holocaust—even though their owner didn't.
These photographs survived the Holocaust—even though their owner didn't–world history and facts Zoltán Schultz was a talented young musician living in Budapest. Beginning in 1938 and throughout the early years of World War II, he was subjected to the Hungarian government's antisemitic policies. Then, in 1944, Zoltán was among the tens of thousands of Jews from Hungary deported to Austria as forced laborers. The Nazis forced Zoltán to help build German fortifications and anti-tank ditches under extremely harsh conditions. In April 1945, Zoltán was forced on a death march to the Mauthausen concentration camp. He never arrived there. While on the march, Zoltán was shot and buried in a shallow grave just outside the Austrian village of Sankt Pankraz. After the war, the US Army ordered that Zoltán and others buried in the shallow grave be disinterred and reburied in a cemetery. Authorities found identification documents and a large packet of photos on Zoltán's body that were w