[Nate]

Australian born

My mother was born in Australia to Hungarian parents - her father came before the war from Transylvania (now part of Romania) and her mother was going to come until war broke out and travel was cancelled. So she joined him after the war ended and got married.

During the war she and her sister hid out using the papers of their non-Jewish friends and got a job at a munitions factory in Budapest. One day one of those friends applied for a job at the factory and the nazi foreman realised what was going on and got ready to have them arrested and sent to a concentration camp. As fate would have it my great-aunt was sick on that day and my grandmother stayed home to take care of her. She was sick for three days and on the third day the Russians conquered Hungary and saved them!

I'll write about my father's side another time.