00:00I was born in Budapest in 1938 to a lower middle class Jewish family and I am now 87 years old,
00:13almost 88. My first remembrance of troubles ahead was the fact that I was not allowed to go to
00:23nursery school. Following on I was told that we are not allowed to go travel on the trams, only on certain
00:32days and only in the entrance area of the tram. The problems began to be more serious by the early
00:41summer of 1944 when we were all forced to wear a yellow star and then things became seriously wrong
00:51when for some reason and I didn't know why other people began to be moved in to our home. I didn't
01:03know why I had to share my bedroom with other Jewish people because our house was declared a yellow star
01:13house and became part of the ghetto which is an area where only Jews could live. I do feel it it's a
01:21a sense of duty for me. It's become a stronger feeling and increasingly it's become an actual
01:33visceral feeling. The pain of what happened has I suppose gone to the next generation. I feel it
01:42in my bones just thinking about it and I would like to do all I can to make sure it doesn't happen again.
01:50you
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