In Footnote to History , Andrew Laszlo takes the reader from the "good days," the good life of a prosperous Hungarian landowner family before World War II, through the deteriorating conditions that culminated in the Holocaust. Through the eyes of a child growing up into young adulthood, experiencing and surviving those events and their aftermath, Laszlo does not devote his story exclusively to the horrors of the holocaust, which differentiates this book from others that describe the same period of history.
Wow!! A must read for all Hungarian immigrants! This man's son lives here in Billings and is friends with friends of ours. My friend borrowed it for me from the Beth Aaron Synagogue; I feel honored to have read it. The human spirit is amazing, while at the same time we humans can be abhorrent.