Miklos Horty (left) on a state visit to Adolf Hitler in Hamburg, 1939. Berliner Verlag/Press Association. All rights reserved.I have known the dark ages of Hungary. As a child during World War Two I experienced first-hand Hungarian ultra-nationalism and anti-Semitism. I managed to avoid deportation and murder in Auschwitz by fleeing to Palestine in 1943, along with 49 other Jewish children.
Decades later, I returned to Hungary during the years of Communism. As a journalist writing for major Austrian newspapers, my reporting included interviewing dissidents. As a result, the Kadar regime expelled me four times from the country, the last time in 1987.
