Peter StanglPeter Stangl was born in Budapest into a Jewish family. As a child he survived WWII, lost his mother in the Holocaust, was hidden from the Nazis, and witnessed Budapest's liberation by the Soviets. He attended school under Soviet rule but was denied dmission to medical school. During the 1956 Hungarian uprising he escaped to the U.S. He attended Yale, earned a degree in library science, and worked at the Yale Medical Library. In 1971 he became Director of Lane Library at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Now retired, he lives in Palo Alto, California. Read More Read Less