Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust
This book is dedicated to my family and all the other families who experienced the Holocaust Special thanks to my sister-in-law Eileen Engle who went above and beyond all expectations to help me realize this project M B
Everyone always says how brave I was to travel through Europe on my own in the middle of World War II I didn’t think I was brave I was Jewish so I had no choice My cousin Marika was brave The Nazis had already invaded Poland where she was from Ever since Hitler had taken power my family was terrified Hitler and his Nazis blamed the Jews for everything that was wrong in their country and the world We had heard about Hitler’s concentration camps Jews were being killed in them so we feared for Marika’s life
Marika was staying with us in Budapest when the order came for all non-Hungarians to report to the deportation office We offered to hide her we begged her to stay But she said
