Hungary had a big inflation requiring them to change their currency from Pengo to Forint. My father told me that they took an egg to the movies as money was not accepted for admission. My father had a confection business. The Germans marched into Budapest March 19, 1944. My father lost his wife and two children in Aushwitz. He was in labor camp in Mauthausen which I saw after the war. Horthy stopped deportation on July 8, 1944 and was forced to resign by kidnapping his son, so he abdicated October 15, 1944 having the Arrow Cross, who were worse than the Nazis, take over. My father remarried in 1946 (the sister of his dead wife, my mother). I was born in January 1948. I did not know that the Russians were in charge until the revolution in 1956. There is currently no yiddishkeit in my hometown Sopron which was a big kehila before the war.
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