Freedom not taken for granted by San Antonio resident who emigrated from Soviet-controlled country
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Agnes Rosza displays a picture of a cross that was carried by her aunt, Rose Helen Safran, when she escaped the communist forces that invaded Budapest, on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Safran and her husband, Stephen, became leaders of the Hungarian community in San Antonio.Billy Calzada, Staff / Billy Calzada
In May 1972, Agnes Rozsa closed the door to her life in Soviet-controlled Budapest, as she prepared for a secret flight to freedom to the United States.
She’s never looked back.
Then just 18, Rozsa, her older sister, Eva, and their mother, Klara, left everything behind in the neighborhood where she had grown up, including her maternal grandparents who were heartbroken about the trio’s departure.
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Family honors woman s wish to be buried with cross she carried to San Antonio after escape from communist Hungary
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Agnes Rosza displays a picture of a cross on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2021, that was carried by her aunt, Rose Helen Safran, when she escaped the communist forces that invaded Budapest in 1956. Safran and her husband, Stephen, became leaders of the Hungarian community in San Antonio.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada
In the last months of her life, Rose Helen Safran was bedridden and dementia had robbed her of the ability to tell richly detailed stories of her beloved homeland of Hungary and a hair-raising escape from communist forces in the 1950s.