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CL“When the deportations started, my mother would carry me in her arms, covering her Star of David, so that the people would not see she was a Jewish woman.” — Peter Mayer
Peter Mayer was not yet a year old when the Holocaust reached his home in northern Transylvania, a region transferred to Hungary in 1940. After Hungary allied with Nazi Germany, deportations intensified. In 1944, more than 130,000 Jews from northern Transylvania were deported to Auschwitz in just a matter of weeks.
Peter’s father was taken into Hungarian forced labor service, where Jewish men were sent to camps or attached to military units without weapons. Many did not survive. Peter and his mother were hidden for months in a basement by a Hungarian woman who risked her life to protect them. He was the only child of his age in his area who survived.
Today, Peter shares the story he learned from his parents so that this history is not forgotten. Invite a Survivor Speaker to your school or community and hear history from someone who lived it.
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