When forced to flee persecution, refugees often carry personal items that serve as emotional anchors to their former lives, such as a small teddy bear that a 7-year-old Jewish boy from Budapest took with him when his family was forced to leave their home during the Holocaust, representing the only tangible connection to his happy childhood.
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I was born in April 1937 in Budapest, Hungary into a well-to-do middle-class Jewish family.
I had no brothers [music] or sisters.
In 1941, Hungary entered the war and in a remarkably short time everything changed.
Anti-Jewish laws were passed restricting our lives. Forced labor camps for Jewish men were set up all over the country and my father was taken to such a camp.
My mother now had to look after me on her [music] own. I was just 7 years old.
We had to move into a designated yellow star block of flats leaving our home to a non-Jewish neighbor.
When we were ordered to leave our home, we had to decide what to take with us.
I had quite [music] a big teddy and a second smaller teddy. I couldn't take the big one, so I took the little teddy with me instead.
I needed something to remind me of my early life when I was a happy child.
That was the only thing that was there at the beginning of my life.
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