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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
FAMILY ORIGIN
Family Origin
HENCIDA
Hencida
NADUDVAR
Family
Carefree Childhood
Foreshadowing the Looming Disaster
Aunt Roza's Courtyard
More Mischief
Daddy's Girl
Brother Lajos - God Rest His Soul
Memories
School Setback
Uncle Adolph's Merry-go-round
Welcome Sister Yolan, Brother Yuda!
PUSPOKLADANY
The Railway Station
Welcome Home
Jew, Run to Palestine!
Making Friends
Chickens and a Garden
School Setback: Part II
Fatherly Inventiveness
The World Around Me
Why Can't We Be Friends
Look Out for the River Er
Father's Stories
School, Alas!
Vera
Honor Thy Father
Let's Go to Nadudvar!
A Hasty Summer Vacation
Not So Welcome Home
Our Gentile Neighbors
New Home, New Enemy
Dreams of a Future in Education
First Love
Mr. Buydoso, Righteous Gentile
Summer Entertainment
Premonition at the Prom
Jew-Hatred in the Air
Dream of Secondary Education Shattered
Settling the Score with an Anti-Semite
Family Feud
HAJDUSAMSON HELL
The End of Childhood Happiness
Stopover at Debrecen
Depression Sets In
Welcome?
Passover Respite
Father!
Cinderella
Small Pleasures
More Black Days
Let Me Come Home!
The Jew Haters Next Door
Goodbye Irene
PUSPOKLADANY II
My Father the Convict
I'm a Feather Trader
Growing Fears of Hitler
Did You Kill God?
Breaking Off Old Friendships
More Anti-Semitic Laws
Goose-Liver Smuggler
NAZI OCCUPATION
March 19, 1944
Tragic Fate of a Righteous Gentile Family
The Yellow Star
The Ghetto
Our New "Home"
My Father's Last Farewell
Adjusting to the Ghetto
A Farmer's Slave Laborers
DEPORTATION
June 18, 1944: Destination Auschwitz
Packing Up
Human Cargo in Cattle Cars
Gendarme's Rude Greetings
"Walking Tour"
St. George Plains
Depressing Transport
Some Austrian Kindness
God is Crying for Us
Degradation at Strasshof
Hanging In as Slave Laborers
BERGEN-BELSEN
November, 1944: Concentration Camp Shipment
Ten Minutes in Berlin
Bergen-Celle
Marching to Bergen-Belsen
"No One Comes to Work Here, Only to Die"
Block Ten's Five Camp Commandments
Trying to Overcome Depression
The Barracks
Thinking of Food
Craving Cattle Beets
December, 1944: New Faces
Dating Habits
Food Stories
That's Entertainment
Red Cross Package Brings Hope
Our Quarters
One-Way Hospital Visits
Walking Corpses
A Monstrous Scream
Less Food, More Poison
The Strength to Survive
Bread After Two Weeks
Barrack Leader's Cruelty
As One with the Cattle Beets
Peppo
Smelling Freedom Ahead
LIBERATION
To be continued IY"H - subscribe for updates
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