Frank Vajda, a major figure in Australian neurology, was a boy in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II. He witnessed the attempt by the Nazis and the Fascist Hungarian militia to murder him, his family and the rest of the Jews. Frank survived with his courageous and ever-resourceful mother and describes what life was like for Jews trying to stay alive in a world where the law of the land, backed up by brute soldierly force, suddenly determined that they were to be killed. Vajda pays tribute to those who did not survive, including his father, and those who did their best to save them, amongst whom the name of Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat, shines most brightly. This book is also an account of Vajdas ongoing campaign, to publicly recognise and honour those, particularly Wallenberg, who risked their own lives in the attempt to save Jewish life. At a time when the memory of this period of Hungarian history is increasingly contested, Vajda's memoir is important both for what it reveals of what happened and for what it says of how these happenings should be remembered.