ESCAPE FROM HUNGARY
A new photography exhibition at IWM London has brought together 50 contemporary portraits of Holocaust survivors and their families. The aim of Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors is to shine a light on their full lives and our collective responsibility to ensure their stories live on. One of the portraits is of John Hajdu, a Hungarian from Budapest who experienced the Nazi and Soviet occupations of Hungary. Born in 1937 to a middle-class Jewish family, Hajdu survived the Budapest Ghetto before he escaped to Britain in 1956 following the Hungarian Revolution. He recalls being separated from his parents, the appalling conditions of the ghetto and how he finally escaped from Hungary.
HOLOCAUST IN BUDAPEST
What are your earliest memories of WWII?
They are vague but I remember my father being taken to a labour camp in 1943. Labourers were made to undertake very heavy labour and some died. They didn’t have enough food so my mother and I were ‘allowed’ to visit my
