Identified v3.13 / corrected v3.18 / birth-order corrected v3.51 (Yitz Feig) / Hungarian civil name and Yad Vashem record reconciled v3.53 (Eli Feig, FN-0010). Laci's older brother — third of the four Klein siblings: Ilona (1912) → Jenő (1913) → Avrohom Chaim / Lajos (1914) → Laci (1922). Hebrew name Avrohom Chaim; Hungarian civil name Lajos — the same parallel-name structure as Laci (Mordechai Elazar) and Jenő (Eliyahu).
Drafted into the Munkaszolgálat (Hungarian forced labor battalions), Unit 108/63 TMSZ, Drafting Region 8 BEV KÖZP. Sent to the Don River front · Alekseyevka, USSR. Status: missing. Most likely died in 1942 or 1943 in the destruction of the Hungarian Second Army at the Don during the Soviet breakthrough of January 1943.
Yad Vashem record (Beate Klarsfeld Foundation list of Hungarian Labour Battalion victims, 1992):
- Last Name: Klein
- First Name: Lajos
- Gender: Male
- Date of Birth: 1914
- Place of Birth: Tiszadada / Tiszadob
- Mother's First Name: Lina
- Mother's Maiden Name: Goldstein
- Place During the Shoah: Alekszejevka, USSR
- Place During the Shoah: forced labor battalions MUSZ in the Hungarian armed forces
- Wartime Address: Unit 108/63 TMSZ; Drafting Region: 8 BEV KOZP
- Status According to Source: missing
- Source Collection: Nevek — Victims of Hungarian Labour Battalions, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation and Yad Vashem, 1992
Family memory: Avrohom Chaim's name is on the
memorial plaque embedded in Zeidy Laci's gravestone in Brooklyn, beside the names of his parents Emanuel and Lina and his sister Ilona.
Tatty has said Yizkor for him every year since he was old enough to learn the names of the dead.
(Family-memory framing corrected v3.53 per Eli Feig and Yitz Feig — earlier site copy said Tatty "did not know Avrohom Chaim existed until the 2010s," which was wrong. The 2010s addition was the wartime documentation, not the existence of the brother.)Zeidy's older brother — between Jenő and Laci. Conscripted into the Hungarian forced-labor battalions (munkaszolgálat) in 1941 or 1942 and sent to the Don River front, where roughly 70 percent of the 39,000 Hungarian Jewish labor servicemen died during the 1943 Soviet breakthrough. By the time the Klein family of Tiszadob was loaded onto the May 1944 trains to Auschwitz, Avrohom Chaim had been dead for at least a year; his parents Emanuel and Lina walked into Auschwitz already grieving him. Tatty has said Yizkor for his uncle Avrohom Chaim every year since he was old enough to know the names of the dead.
Source: Chapter 3.
Identified v3.13 / corrected v3.18 / birth-order corrected v3.51 (Yitz Feig) / Hungarian civil name and Yad Vashem record reconciled v3.53 (Eli Feig, FN-0010). Laci's older brother — third of the four Klein siblings: Ilona (1912) → Jenő (1913) → Avrohom Chaim / Lajos (1914) → Laci (1922). Hebrew name Avrohom Chaim; Hungarian civil name Lajos — the same parallel-name structure as Laci (Mordechai Elazar) and Jenő (Eliyahu).
Drafted into the Munkaszolgálat (Hungarian forced labor battalions), Unit 108/63 TMSZ, Drafting Region 8 BEV KÖZP. Sent to the Don River front · Alekseyevka, USSR. Status: missing. Most likely died in 1942 or 1943 in the destruction of the Hungarian Second Army at the Don during the Soviet breakthrough of January 1943.
Yad Vashem record (Beate Klarsfeld Foundation list of Hungarian Labour Battalion victims, 1992):
- Last Name: Klein
- First Name: Lajos
- Gender: Male
- Date of Birth: 1914
- Place of Birth: Tiszadada / Tiszadob
- Mother's First Name: Lina
- Mother's Maiden Name: Goldstein
- Place During the Shoah: Alekszejevka, USSR
- Place During the Shoah: forced labor battalions MUSZ in the Hungarian armed forces
- Wartime Address: Unit 108/63 TMSZ; Drafting Region: 8 BEV KOZP
- Status According to Source: missing
- Source Collection: Nevek — Victims of Hungarian Labour Battalions, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation and Yad Vashem, 1992
Family memory: Avrohom Chaim's name is on the
memorial plaque embedded in Zeidy Laci's gravestone in Brooklyn, beside the names of his parents Emanuel and Lina and his sister Ilona.
Tatty has said Yizkor for him every year since he was old enough to learn the names of the dead.
(Family-memory framing corrected v3.53 per Eli Feig and Yitz Feig — earlier site copy said Tatty "did not know Avrohom Chaim existed until the 2010s," which was wrong. The 2010s addition was the wartime documentation, not the existence of the brother.)Zeidy's older brother — between Jenő and Laci. Conscripted into the Hungarian forced-labor battalions (munkaszolgálat) in 1941 or 1942 and sent to the Don River front, where roughly 70 percent of the 39,000 Hungarian Jewish labor servicemen died during the 1943 Soviet breakthrough. By the time the Klein family of Tiszadob was loaded onto the May 1944 trains to Auschwitz, Avrohom Chaim had been dead for at least a year; his parents Emanuel and Lina walked into Auschwitz already grieving him. Tatty has said Yizkor for his uncle Avrohom Chaim every year since he was old enough to know the names of the dead.
Source: Chapter 3.
