Hungary 3,000 Forint 2024. 125th Anniversary of the Birth of Holocaust Heroine Sára Salkaházi. CuNi BU

A Hungarian nun who saved the lives of ap- proximately one hundred Jews during World War II. Before joining the church, she was an atheist, chain-smoking journalist in Czechoslovakia. She joined the Sisters of Social Service in 1929 and became director of the Catholic Working Girls' Movement, and built the first Hungarian college for working women.
She opened the Working Girls' Homes to provide safe haven for Jews persecuted by the Hungarian Nazi Party. During the final months of World War II, she helped shelter hundreds of Jews in a building belonging to the Sisters of Social Service in Budapest. About 100 people were aided by Salkahazi herself. She was betrayed to the authorities by a woman working in the house. The Jews she had sheltered were taken prisoner by members of the Hungarian pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party. Salkaházi was not in the house when the arrests took place and could have fled, but she chose to return. They were all lined up on the banks of the Danube on December 27, 1944 and shot, together with four Jewish women and a Christian co-worker who was not a member of her religious institute. Her body was never recovered.
In 1969 her deeds on behalf of Hungarian Jews were recognized by Yad Vashem after she was nominated by the daughter of one of the Jewish women she was hiding, who was killed alongside her.
Sister Sára is shown standing on the obverse with a memorial tree (Yad Vashem) at her feet. Vilag Igaza means “Righteous Among the Nations.”
The reverse has a view of the Chain Bridge on the Danube near where she was murdered, with a dove flying discreetly above. Ecce ego mitte me is Latin for “Here I am, send me,” from the Old Testament, Isaiah, Chapter 6, Verse 8.

Denomination Quality Metal   Issue limit  Diameter     Weight  
3000 HUF          BU     CuNi   5,000         38.61 mm    30.8 g