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Andris Grof, shares his memoir,beginning as a young son of Polish Jewish parents in Budapest. He flees Nazi occupied Poland with his mother, seeking refuge with a Christian family outside the city. Ten yrs. after WWII, in 1956, his family faces the Hungarian uprising, being surrounded by Soviet tanks in the invasion of Budapest. Andris escapes to the West by marching through Budapest into Austria. He escapes successfully, and is a "free" man. He succeeds in coming to America and assumes the name Andrew S. Grove,and pursues studying chemistry. Read the wonderful story of one man's story of escape from a "red-curtain" country to freedom. A great read.
