When the Danube ran red

Begins in 1938, when at the age of eight, the author first learns about the Nazis from another child, a Polish refugee, during a conversation at a birthday party. The book chronicles Ozsvßth's experience of the German occupation of Budapest and confinement of the Jews to ghetto houses in 1944. Aided by their former nanny, Ozsvßth's family manages to escape the death marches in which Jews were shot by the thousands on the banks of the Danube, and to survive the subsequent air raids as the Russians advanced on the city