Please join us as we warmly welcome Ms. Agnes Schwartz. Ms. Schwartz is from Budapest, Hungary. During the Second World War, during the Occupation, her family was forced into the ghetto (1944). At the age of 10, the family maid - Julia Balazs - took Agnes in as "her niece" who was fleeing the Russian Army. During the Allied bombings she was sent to live underground for months. While her father was saved by Raoul Wallenberg, hiding in one of his safe houses, her grandmother, grandfather and aunt drowned in the Danube. Her mom was deported and perished at Bergen Belsen..
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