Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. We’d like to mark this day by sharing the story of survivor Alice Kertész, née Grosz. Let’s go back to Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. World War II is ravaging Europe, and 30-year-old Alice’s life is in danger. She is Jewish in a city that has just been occupied by the armies of Nazi Germany, who are deporting Jews to concentration camps. Alice, who runs a dairy shop, decides to disguise herself as a Catholic war widow and use duplicate identity papers. She is unmarried and lives alone, but there is a man in Alice's life – Sándor. He, on the other hand, is married and has three children. The Nazis send Sándor’s family to Auschwitz–Birkenau, where they are killed in the gas chambers. Sándor himself is sent to different labour camps and is liberated by the American army in May 1945. Eventually, Sándor comes back to Budapest and Alice, and a year later they get married. In 1948, they move to Sándor’s home city of Jászberény, where their son Tomas is bo...