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Attila JOACHIM (1923-1947), the third of three children of the Hungarian (Magyar) artist painter Ferenc JOACHIM (1882-1964) and his wife born Margit GRÁF (1892-1965). Attila Joachim was a son and a graduate in 1946, Student registrations, of the "Képzőművészeti Főiskola" ("The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts" in Hungarian, "The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts" in English, a university level professional college) in Budapest, Hungary where he also started teaching when he died in 1947 due to accumulated internal bodily injuries caused by repeated beatings suffered during the 1943 and 1944 Budapest holocaust in Hungary.

Attila JOACHIM (1923-1947) was the third of three children of the Hungarian (Magyar) artist painter Ferenc JOACHIM (1882-1964) and his wife born Margit GRÁF (1892-1965), their first child being Piroska Joachim, and their second child being Ferenc G. Joachim. Piroska and her husband Tivadar Porkoláb's two children, Tibor Porkoláb and Miklós Porkoláb, are also in this picture. Photograph recorded on 20 August 1944, in Budapest, Hungary.

Attila Joachim (1923-1947) died at approximately 24 years of age due to accumulated internal bodily injuries suffered from repeated beatings by the Hungarian (Magyar) collaborators of the German nazis during the Budapest holocaust circa 1943 and 1944 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a student at, and a 1946 graduate of, the "Képzőművészeti Főiskola" ("The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts" in Hungarian, "The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts" in English, a university level professional college) in Budapest, Hungary. Attila Joachim's student status from 1941 to 1946 is shown by the student registration records of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Student registration of Attila Joachim at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Immediately after graduating in 1946 he began teaching at the academy. (OPEN QUESTION: Did the students and faculty of the "Képzőművészeti Főiskola" aid and assist the hunted victims to hide and to escape from the hunter Hungarian (Magyar) collaborators of the German nazis during the Budapest holocaust?)

Attila Joachim (1923-1947) was the third of three children of the Hungarian (Magyar) artist painter Ferenc Joachim (1882-1964) and his wife born Margit Graf (1892-1965). He was survived by his two older siblings, his sister Piroska Joachim (1913- ) and his brother Ferenc Gabriel Joachim (1920-1989). This was a Roman Catholic family. Attila Joachim (1923-1947) would have been certainly aware and conscious that his mother's sisters born Julia Graf and Rozsa Graf and their husbands and children were murdered in cold blood sometime during 1943 or 1944 by the Hungarian (Magyar) collaborators of the German nazis during the Budapest holocaust. Attila Joachim (1923-1947) is being remembered now in August of 2006 by his 93 year old sister Piroska Joachim (1913- ) whose later married name is Mrs. Piroska Porkolab or in the Hungarian (Magyar) language usage Porkolab Tivadar-ne.

SOME BACKGROUND REFERENCES on the Budapest holocaust and the Hungary holocaust

• Raoul Wallenberg
• Photographs of Hungary holocaust
• The Holocaust

Attila JOACHIM is referred to by his father the Hungarian (Magyar) artist painter Ferenc JOACHIM (1882-1964) who was interviewed in the Budapest, Hungary daily afternoon newspaper "Esti Kurir" on 15 March 1935 on page 9. The topic of the interview is how in the middle of the Great Depression the family has fallen into abject hopeless poverty and hunger with his wife Margit, and children Piroska, Ferenc G. and Attila and how the despair has driven his daughter Piroska to attempted suicide and who is now being treated at the Rókus Hospital. The newspaper article identifies the father Ferenc Joachim as a founding member of the Nemzeti Szalon, a contributor to the Nemzeti Muzeum, and a recognized artist in Paris, Rome and Berlin. Article from "Esti Kurir," 15 March 1935, page 9.