In The Whirlwind of History

Tibor Vajda a 20-year-old Jew escaped from a forced labor camp in October 1944 and joined a resistance group in Budapest. They fought the fascist Arrowcross bandits and freed Jewish men from the ghetto.</p><p>Vajda's mother and younger brother Laszlo were hiding at a Christian business. They survived mass killings on the streets and on the banks of the Danube but lost family members in the chaos.</p><p>When Eva and Tibor got married they felt they could not live among people who supported murdering Jews. They joined a Zionist group planning to follow them to Palestine.</p><p>Tibor's father was seen alive but sick on the Austrian border. Before he could leave to find him eye-witnesses arrived who saw German SS soldiers kill him. Eva got pregnant and Tibor's mother became sick. They got stuck in Hungary.After the war public anti-Semitism became louder in Hungary. Remnants of the fascist German and Hungarian armies under the patronage of western armies planned to start third world war against the Soviets.</p><p>Holocaust survivors feared a new fascist takeover. Some young Jewish men joined the political police. Tibor Vajda's decision proved to be fatal. Fugitive of the fascists soon became the victim of the communists.