Five months before he was born, his father was taken to a forced labor camp/He died in 1943 in Ukraine

Rise of Antisemitism

1944 All Jews ordered to move into “csillagos haz”(houses marked with a yellow Star of David)

peter and mother found refuge with a Christian friend mother

Was denounced by a neighbor and arrested

She later escaped/Refuge in an apartment safeguarded by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg

antisemitic terror became stronger in 1944

They fled to the ghetto and stayed with his grandparents,two aunts, and a cousin in a one bedroom apartment

1945: Budapest was liberated by the Soviet army

Grandparents died from malnutrition after liberation

In 1962: last name changed to Gorog for fear of antisemitic discrimination

1980 Immigration to the United States

Lest We Forget Washington, D.C. 01-21-2018