Imagine it like this: three generations of your family have lived in the same house in the same town. But at least we were still in our community and were not evicted from our home, so that was some comfort. These young Nazis habitually roamed around and did tremendous damage to many individuals. It’s an incredibly scary feeling when you’re exposed to anyone’s raw feelings and enmity. With no law to protect us, it was common for Jews to get beaten up or thrown off the train. We couldn’t ride the trains and we had to wear the yellow star. Jewish children were thrown out of Hungarian schools, so right away we had no choice but to concentrate on hunkering down and trying not to bring attention to ourselves. My father’s lumber business was confiscated and given to a non-Jew, and we received no compensation. It was a difficult time for Jewish families, as suddenly the law no longer protected us and overnight we lost our civil rights. That was when our problems started, because the Hungarians were allied with the Nazis. When I was eight years old Czechoslovakia broke apart and we became part of Hungary.
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