The Choice
the first years in our new home. We Hungarians can’t end a night of drinking without eating sauerkraut ...
opportunity. We could go to America like Magda, but without the wait. Béla returns from his tri ...
CHAPTER 10 Flight I come home from the park with Marianne on May 19, 1949, and Mariska is w ...
dresser drawer and take out the diamond ring Béla had made for me when we married. It’s a beautiful r ...
assertive is to decide for yourself. And to trust that there is enough, that you are enough. Oh, but ...
And what about me? How will I be punished when I reveal my purpose here? I summon the con ...
places. Béla is in a cell by himself. He’s wearing his regular clothes—no uniform—and he jumps ...
presence. At the train station I leave Béla and Marianne on a secluded bench and go alone to buy three ...
search the train. ere was no time to procure fake identiĕcation. We are who we are. We ĕnd an empty com ...
“Don’t you want to see my surprise?” He pulls the door open again. And there are my sister Klara, and ...
I will never know if money or jewels change hands. All I know is that aer a series of excruciati ...
an easy place to be, they say. Aer a year, the Arab-Israeli War is ĕnally winding down, ...
be leaving Vienna almost as soon as we have arrived. We won’t be waiting years, as Klara and Csi ...
Committee, the American charity that supports Rothschild. I go out in the city with Marianne, the docu ...
“And Mama wouldn’t let me go? Go to America, Dicu. Mama would want you to.” “But the TB,” I ...
PART III FREEDOM ...
CHAPTER 11 Immigration Day Immigration day, October 28, 1949, was the most optimistic and promising ...
a letter. In another hour, maybe two, I would embrace my sister, my brave sister, her jokes at the ready t ...
forsake our marriage in order to take Marianne to America. However painfully, I had been willing to sacr ...
adventure, amused by my strange act, accepting of my logic. In America we’d do as the Americans do ...
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