“People tend to talk about Hungarian Jews as being very religious but that mainly applies to Jews who lived in rural communities…in the villages, if a Jew with payos walked down the middle of the street, children would run up to him and pull them…everybody knew that an outward sign of Judaism, such as payos, would attract trouble.”
“My mother never did find out what happened to my father. There was no certainty. I have a copy of an International Red Cross search document where my mother had entered his details. The form was circulated in the camps and amongst survivors to try and find news of him, dead or alive, but there was never any feedback about him.”
“If I have one regret in my life, it is that there is so much I did not appreciate until my later years. Acknowledging my mother for how much she had done for me through all the difficulties, did not happen in her lifetime.”