This story is about a Hungarian teenager who lived through the horrors of World War II, including air raids, bombing of his hometown, and the Siege of Budapest. He was abducted by the Russians and taken as a prisoner of war. He and his family were actively helping Jews to survive the Nazi terror. He lived for eight years in a brutal, totalitarian, Soviet style communist nightmare and as a young physician was forced to spend time in a sanatorium because of a questionable false diagnosis. During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he was a surgeon at one of the busiest hospitals in Budapest where the first mass casualties were treated. When the Freedom Fight was lost because in the absence of Western support the Soviets had a free hand to crush it, he had to escape to seek freedom. His love for God, family, friends, indeed all humanity, sustained him during those difficult years. He never gave up but pressed on with an optimistic, positive outlook for life in liberty. The author is hopeful that all those who read his story will have a better understanding of the love in the hearts and souls of Hungarian people. This historical fiction is based on real life events. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead is purely coincidental
About the Author: About the Author As a teenager, the author lived through the horrors of World War II, including air raids, the bombing of his hometown in Hungary, and the Siege of Budapest. He survived near-starvation conditions, living in underground cellars for months, and escaped from a brief POW captivity. During the Nazi terror, he helped many Jews to survive. Following the war and during the years of the communist dictatorship, he remained steadfast, keeping faith in God and an unrelenting quest for liberty. After the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, he escaped and found his new home in America. As a physician anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist, he was the head of a Washington, D.C.-area hospital's anesthesiology department for almost 30 years. When communism collapsed in Hungary, he was instrumental in obtaining a multimillion-dollar USAID grant to establish a partnership program between his hospital in the United States and St. Francis Hospital in Budapest, for the purpose of building a state-of-the-art Cardiology Department at St. Francis Hospital. After his retirement from the active practice of medicine, he returned to his hometown in Hungary to write his story from the perspective of a teenager, later a medical student, than young physician. He hopes to provide a fresh look at Hungary, that it may be judged by its good intentions rather than its failures. From Hungary with Love is a message for a new Hungary, where the love of God and of fellow citizens is a virtue not to be stashed away, where patriotism is not overpowered by chauvinism, and charity to help others will warm hearts more than getting a handout. And never...never...never give up on reaching your goals.