Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiiiPrologue 1 1926- 5 1930- 9 Picking up where I left o"... 22 To 1932 23 1932-1936 40 1936-1940 63 1939-1943 94 1942-1944 109 1944. March, April, May, June 129 1944. June, July, August 137 1944. September, October 157 1944. October, November, December; 1945. January,February, March 170 1945. March, May 188 1945- 206 1945-1946 211 1946-1947 231 Epilogue 246Afterword 253 About the Authors 255 Photographs & Correspondence 257 Amsterdam Publishers Holocaust Library 309 Notes 321The secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his experiences with the Nazis, his will to survive was tested again and again.On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary. He wrote, “As I warned you, from here on, this account is going to get rough.”Andrew’s family was relocated to the ghetto and forced to wear the yellow star. He was conscripted into the Hungarian Labor Service. His father and mother were taken away.As the war dragged on, Andrew was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Years later, his children learned that Anne Frank was a prisoner in the camp at the same time.At 20 years old, having nothing left, Andrew escaped Russian-occupied Hungary and made his way to a displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany. He was granted emigration to the United States. He arrived in New York Harbor on January 17, 1947, with two dollars in his pocket. He did not speak the English language.He became a world-class cinematographer.The secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his experiences with the Nazis, his will to survive was tested again and again.On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary. He wrote, “As I warned you, from here on, this account is going to get rough.”Andrew’s family was relocated to the ghetto and forced to wear the yellow star. He was conscripted into the Hungarian Labor Service. His father and mother were taken away.As the war dragged on, Andrew was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Years later, his children learned that Anne Frank was a prisoner in the camp at the same time.At 20 years old, having nothing left, Andrew escaped Russian-occupied Hungary and made his way to a displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany. He was granted emigration to the United States. He arrived in New York Harbor on January 17, 1947, with two dollars in his pocket. He did not speak the English language.He became a world-class cinematographer.