A personal story caught up in the dark history of the mid-twentieth century begins with a lost child's cry. A dozen years of sheltered life in a Hungarian middle-class family-a vanished age of peace and luxury behind precariously concealed Jewish origins-is wrenched into persecution by the Nazi invasion of March 1944 - the overcrowded ghetto, the horror of the brickworks camp and deportation follow. The author's evocative account of what it was...