In Tamási, a small town in Hungary's Tolna county, a local resident discovered fifteen Hebrew books in an attic, along with handwritten names and seals that could help trace their origins and possibly return them to their descendants. László Borbély, a 55-year-old entrepreneur, found the books in an old leather suitcase while cleaning the attic. The books, described as Bibles and prayer books, were handed over to the Max Nordau Magyar–Izraeli Baráti Társaság, a Hungarian-Israeli friendship association based in Bonyhád, which is now trying to trace their origin and find descendants of the former owners. The attic contained two suitcases, according to local media TEOL. One held the fifteen Hebrew books, and the other held family documents left by previous occupants of the house, some dating back to the 19th century. Borbély found one of the people whose family had occupied the premises since 1951. The family's testimony suggests that the previous occupants had known about the suitcases but forbade their children from accessing them. This does not yet allow dating their arrival in the attic, but it provides an additional milestone in the origin investigation. Tamási once housed a significant Jewish community, with 411 members in 1900 and 187 in 1941. In 1944, 210 Jews from Tamási and the surrounding areas were gathered in the local ghetto, according to Hungarian administrative records now indexed by the Zekelman Holocaust Center. These records document the inventory and expropriation of property belonging to Jewish residents, including agricultural properties, furniture, equipment, or animals. These documents do not establish a direct link with the fifteen books found in 2026, but they illuminate the context in which houses and possessions could have been abruptly separated from their owners during the ghettos and deportations of 1944. An archive of the Tolnai Népújság, published in July 2004 at the time of the inauguration of a commemorative plaque, gives another figure: 184 Jewish residents of Tamási, belonging to 64 families, would have been affected by the persecution; 32 would have survived and 152 would have died. The synagogue, however, did not survive. Built in the 19th century, it was demolished in 1951. A brick wall remains at the corner of Eötvös and Arany János streets, where a commemorative plaque was placed in 2004. The inscriptions found in the volumes now take on a new importance: seven names have already been recorded, to which are added seals and handwritten mentions. The first leads point to families in the Heves county, notably in Eger and Feldebrő. TEOL notes the presence of burned pages in some volumes, which could indicate that the books were saved from a fire. This hypothesis remains to be confirmed due to the lack of expertise to reconstruct the circumstances of these damages. In Bonyhád, this method has already allowed the search for descendants of former owners from inscriptions preserved in books. In July 2026, TEOL reported the restitution of a book that had become, for a family, a material link with an ancestor deported. The seven names already recorded in the Tamási volumes explain the importance of the current investigation: to identify not only the origin of the books, but the family trajectories to which they could still be attached. Borbély explains that he was inspired by a previous story of a Bible found, whose descendants of the owners had finally been identified. He then turned to the Max Nordau Magyar–Izraeli Baráti Társaság, whose president, Hetesi Beáta, went to Tamási to take charge of the fifteen books. The project is twofold: to search for their original owners or their descendants and, in the meantime, to present them with the suitcase in a glass case specially purchased for this purpose in the former synagogue of Bonyhád. The research is still ongoing. The place continues to host events dedicated to Jewish culture and memory: in June 2026, the Mazsihisz, the main federation of Hungarian Jewish communities, organized with the Max Nordau association meetings combining prayers, historical tours, and exchanges. "We consider this task as a sacred duty, a mitzvah," explains Hetesi Beáta to Szombat. The association says it is ready to preserve and present the Jewish objects and books entrusted to it, as well as to search for the descendants of their former owners in order to return them when possible.