Father József Temesi SJ remembers Magdi’s last New Year’s Eve like this:
On the evening of December 31, 1944, Magdi came to the parish to wish a happy New Year, but found no priests. Father István O. was sick in his hometown, and I went to the canteen for dinner. Magdi found only the parish priestess T. Ilonka and her sister Jucci. They were wondering how to express New Year’s greetings in my absence. They decided to write the greeting on the back of a holy picture, but neither of them had a holy picture. Ilonka remarked that she had the key to my room, as she was the cleaner. She also saw that there were holy pictures on my desk. – We’ll give Father his own holy picture! They all wrote their toasts. Then they came to the canteen for dinner. I left, they came. We met. They greeted me in a choir. As they went, I heard a low laugh, a kind of giggling, as if they were only children’s girls. I could not imagine what amused them until I saw their gifts on my desk. I was very pleased with this little joke. Next to Ilonka and Juci’s clichéd New Year’s greetings, the writing on Magdi’s gift is now serious. The little holy picture is of the seed sower. This was a trigger for Magdi: “Sweet Jesus, I promise that the seed sown will bring forth a hundredfold. Magda on the last night of 1944.” It was her last New Year’s Eve.