Parallel Lines: A Journey from Childhood to Belsen by Peter Lantos

By Peter Lantos

Publish yr note: First released September twenty eighth 2007
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This is a narrative of a tender boy's trip from a sleepy provincial city in Hungary throughout the moment global warfare to the focus camp in Bergen-Belsen. in contrast to different books facing this era, this isn't a Holocaust tale, yet a child's recollection of a trip choked with shock, pleasure, bereavement and terror. but, this continues to be a sworn statement of survival, overcoming hindrances, which to adults could seem insurmountable, yet to a baby have been simply a part of an event and, finally, restoration. After having proven a profession within the West, the writer determined to revisit the levels on his previous trips, reliving the prior during the viewpoint of the current. alongside the way in which, ghosts from the previous are ultimately laid to leisure by means of the kindness of recent pals.

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By Peter Lantos

Publish yr note: First released September twenty eighth 2007
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This is a narrative of a tender boy's trip from a sleepy provincial city in Hungary throughout the moment global warfare to the focus camp in Bergen-Belsen. in contrast to different books facing this era, this isn't a Holocaust tale, yet a child's recollection of a trip choked with shock, pleasure, bereavement and terror. but, this continues to be a sworn statement of survival, overcoming hindrances, which to adults could seem insurmountable, yet to a baby have been simply a part of an event and, finally, restoration. After having proven a profession within the West, the writer determined to revisit the levels on his previous trips, reliving the prior during the viewpoint of the current. alongside the way in which, ghosts from the previous are ultimately laid to leisure by means of the kindness of recent pals.

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We can hardly believe it. Meanwhile, a delegation of farmers, led by the head of the Nazi Party in Szemere, travels to the District Attorney with a 27 request for an exemption for my daughter and me. The supposed reason is that I am needed as a cook for the farm hands; the request is refused. We are given four days to prepare for the trip. When we are done, we have three horsedrawn carriages loaded with the belongings we think we'll need, wherever we might go. At the last minute I rummage and sort through my personal things, coming across my new hat.

We are left to languish, parched and starved, on the barracks floor or outside in the mud, or under the summer heat and dust. We have nothing else to do. With no work, nothing to think about, we languish in purposelessness. And the infernal military machinery does its work day and night. One can be hit any time without warning. Women are selected from our midst, thrown naked onto trucks and taken away. Easily, like potato sacks. We witness the diabetics die in agony for lack of a drop of insulin.

April 23, 1938. On my return to Hungary, I find things have changed. An anti-Jewish bill has become law, and is enacted later in May. From then on, no Jewish men or women can be hired for work. Practically, it means that recently graduated students are unable to find jobs. In addition, the existing contingent of employed Jews must be reduced every six months. All Jewish public employees, including teachers, are dismissed. We take the fact that independent businesses or self-employed workers are left alone as an indication that the Hungarian government has no intention of harming us.

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