The current study wishes to provide a deeper understanding of the Hungarian-speaking Holocaust survivors in Israel through the analysis of its staff and readership of the Új Kelet (New Orient) newspaper at its heyday. Approximately 20.000 copies of the newspaper were published daily decades after the Shoah. Its iconic figures such as Tomi Lapid, Ferenc Kishont, Károly Gárdos (-DOS), Rezső Kasztner contributed to the creation and establishment of the modern state of Israel. Very few researches exist in the discourse of social history on the post-Holocaust lives of the Shoah survivors. Új Kelet was the bridge between the pre-Holocaust and the post-Holocaust lives of the survivors. Many of them used this paper as a springboard for the integration into the Israeli society.
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