John Hajdu, 85, was seven years old when the Hungarian Arrow Cross party, supporting the Nazi regime, rounded up Budapest’s Jews in a courtyard in 1944. He had been taken from his “yellow star” flat and given just minutes to say goodbye. John’s parents had already been sent to concentration camps.
“This is where my life changed,” he told The Independent. “My aunt who stayed with us said ‘come with me’. She grabbed me and rushed me across the corridor to a non-Jewish neighbour’s flat, who very kindly and very bravely agreed to hide her and me in a cupboard.”
