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Article: The Angel of Budapest
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 2, 1994
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"I shall never forget 5 April 1944," says Jaime Vandor, 61. "We
were forced for the first time to wear yellow stars when we went to
school. It was that same day that the Allies started bombing.
"Being Jewish and over 12, my brother, Enrique, was forced to
clear up rubble, even during air raids. One day he came back and
told us he had seen a cattle train go by, with people's hands
poking out of the slits. My mother knew what that meant."
Mr Vandor, who now lives in Barcelona, grew up among the
22,000-strong Jewish community in the Hungarian capital of
Budapest. He owes his life to two men, a Spanish diplomat named
Angel Sanz-Briz, and Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian
businessman-adventurer, who ...