English: Father in Bucharest in January 1945 in a military overcoat. (The

size of the original photograph is 5,5 x 4,0 cm.) Sixty-eight percent of Budapest Jews, aged 20-40, serving in labor service died during the war. My father deserted his unit in Trasnssylvania and ran over to the Soviet Side of the front. /A Soviet soldier shot an alarm shot that hit father. The bullet went through his thigh. Father was hospitalized in a village named Külhalom, whence he escaped with the help of the hospital director who said: "You will soon be released from hospital. I ought to hand you over to the gendarmarie and then you are to testify that you were not a soldier and then you will be released. But....if you want to escape, I give you some money for the train." (OHA)/ Father first went to Brassó and then to Bucharest, where he received help from the JOINT. Before returning to

Hungary, he lived for several months in Bucharest.