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Hungary didn't want a war- we wanted to be like Switzerland,we wanted to be neutral, but Hitler thought differently ...so he disposed of our President and the government and put Austrians living in Hungary into the government and then of course.. that night the Germans started to occupy us.

I remember the Germans coming ..they came at night and the next morning we were flooded with Germans. I living in Budapest at the time,but my my family remained on the farm. I went home from time to time .....we lived near Austrian border...they didn;t take our food at first...then they did start to take our food and started to interfere and run everything and the people did not have the right to say or do as they wished.

One day I was in my kichen in Budapest, waiting to go to work and a bomb was dropped on my home and many people were killed in our street...a remember a huge bang- I was stunned, I went deaf for 3 months...the street below got hit badly too..three friends I was living with in the house were all killed... a big hotel was hit badly too.. I remember many Germans in the hotel screaming and crawling out of the rubble.. I was so confused, I thought I was running to the stairs but I fell into a hole and was buried for a while and dug myself out..I didn't know what was going on the shock was so bad- I was running out- I saw people dying on the street- I ran out to help them...I was screaming for help but nobody came at first.Shrapnel- took a man's legs away, and two or three men lying in a pool of blood- I rememeber blood coming from their eyes and ears..nose and mouth..I had to look after myself, I got some of my clothes together in what was left of my room and went to the station to try and see if I could get a train back to my village.

When this bomb happened, the Russians had already surrounded the esat side of the city.

In spring 1944, the Russians got to my village..a battle was going on night after night after night...we had never seen a Russian dead, but we had had to bury the dead Germans...You have no idea...and then of course we already were short of food because the Germans took what they could and then Russians came in the next morning after the battle had finished....a Russian came to our farm looking for food and clothes. A soldier made my brother strip and he was left in his underpants. The Russian was covered in lice and wanted clothes..my mother said "what shall we do with these clothes?they are crawling with lice" and she put put them in the oven and tried to kill the lice, but couldn';t. My brother had no clothes- my mother finally killed the lice by boiling them and dressed my brother in the Russian's uniform. The Russian women soldiers took our clothes too and then they asked for food and we had none to give..they searched our stable and found two little piglets that the Germans had left and each soldier held a leg of the piglet and one started to try and cut the leg off while it was still alive and I was screaming at the soldiers and it was amazing that they did not shoot me. I saw a Russian officer coming down on a footpath so I rushed out and pulled him in and he told them off and they left the little piglet badly injured with its leg hanging off and my mother said "put it in a stable on the staw and it will be dead in the morning..." so next morning my mother said that Anna, my niece ( 16 months old) was hungry and she said "go and see if the cows will give milk" ( we had two cows hidden in the stable) she asked me to try and go and milk the cow and I went and when I opened the top part of the stable door- I saw the little injured piglet suckling the cow! and I ran in and shouted "come on everyone have a look at this!"... but there was very little milk left in the cow and I took out what I could and my neice had that little bit of milk.

We were so hungry my sister was crying "Im so hungry ...can I go out and graze where the cows used to graze..?" we were so hungry we used to go in the hedges and bushes eating berries ...for a year we had nothing.. to this day still I have trouble with my stomach- I lost all my teeth becasue of the starvation and the doctor said he couldn't do anything ....and when I came to England I had to go to hospital and they pulled all my teeth out- they couldn't do anything for me.
When I came to live in England , I used to say to my husband who was English " I have gone to heaven...am I dad or alive..!" beacuse there was so much food..and he used to say "if you stand sideways I can't see you.."
Now at 85..what I saw still troubles me- I used to have nightmares but not so much now... only if I think about it..We should learn to live in peace and not try and take other people's counties.. look at Iraq- I am very sorry for all these people...not just Iraq but all the counties where people are starving.. in my village people used to drop dead on the street.. we should learn from this ...to allow eacother to get on together...but look what is going on now..

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