Reviews the process by which Jewish refugees - mainly from Germany and Austria, and later from Slovakia and Poland - arrived in Hungary during the war, many of whom had lived in Hungary until World War I. A large proportion of these refugees had fled or were deported due to border changes forced on the region in the late 1930s causing displacement from their homes. Hungary was a relatively safe haven until the spring of 1944 when it became a death trap in the wake of the Nazi occupation