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I was born in a small town about
200 kilometres east of Budapest,

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in so-called central Hungary, which is...

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meaning that everybody
there in town was Hungarian.

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I happened to be a seventh generation
to be born in that town.

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And we were patriotic Hungarians
with a Jewish religion.

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And my childhood was uneventful.

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Being only 45 Jewish families
and very few Jewish children,

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there were no Jewish parochial schools.

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All Jewish children did go
to public school,

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and my friends and classmates were
from the other existing two religions.

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Majority was Protestant
and the other was Roman Catholic.

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Otherwise, everything went smoothly.