Budapest, 1930s and 1940s. L�szl� "Laci" Weisz had an ambitious streak, excelling in school and prospering in business despite modest beginnings. Had he lived in unremarkable times, his life might have qualified as a Hungarian Horatio Alger story. But the Nazi takeover of Germany inspired a series of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary. Laci's employer offered him a choice: accept a demotion and reduction in salary or be fired along with the other Jewish employees. He chose termination, resolving to find a better life for ...
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Budapest, 1930s and 1940s. L�szl� "Laci" Weisz had an ambitious streak, excelling in school and prospering in business despite modest beginnings. Had he lived in unremarkable times, his life might have qualified as a Hungarian Horatio Alger story. But the Nazi takeover of Germany inspired a series of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary. Laci's employer offered him a choice: accept a demotion and reduction in salary or be fired along with the other Jewish employees. He chose termination, resolving to find a better life for himself and his family in a more welcoming nation. Unfortunately, World War II intervened. Only after surviving multiple forced-labor camps and escaping imminent deportation to a death camp would he achieve his goal. The Lives of a Budapest Jew tells the gripping story of Laci, renamed Leslie Varady in the United States, his wife Magda, and his son Robert, survivors of the Budapest Ghetto. A testament to an extraordinary family, it serves as a reminder that oppressors will always be on the wrong side of history.
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