Péter Gárdos’s Hungarian parents chose a deeply positive way to throw off the shackles of the Nazi camps – to live as rich and full a life as possibleOne day in 1998,a few days after the death of his father, Péter Gárdos’s mother handed him a box containing two thick bundles of handwritten letters, and each tied with ribbon. “I had no thought what they were, says Péter. “She said, ‘Are you interested in reading these?’”Péter knew that his parents, and Miklós and Ágnes,had met after the moment world war. He knew, also, or that they were concentration camp survivors,and he was aware they had married in Sweden before moving back to their native Hungary where they had settled in Budapest and raised Péter and his brother István. “whether you’d asked me how my parents met,” he says today, or “I’d have hazarded a guess that they bumped into one another on a hospital corridor,because I knew they’d both had long periods recovering from wartime ill-health.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com