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...BUDAPEST: DECEMBER...
...longed to ignore the stories. He had already lived through the horror of the Nazis, outsmarting the SS, avoiding Budapest's brownshirts. One day his mother had bundled him into the house of a "courageous acquaintance," where they sweated out the pogroms of 1944. He saw his father return from the labor camps on the Eastern front, a proud, garrulous man shriveled by typhoid fever and chilled by pneumonia. Boys at school mocked him: before the war as a Jew, after the war because his father was a businessman (a dairyman, but that was enough). In his government file...
Andras Grof was born on Sept. 2, 1936, in Budapest, the son of George, the dairyman, and Maria, a bookkeeping clerk. His father, a gregarious, easygoing man with a strong, logical mind, left school early and taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small dairy service. Grove's mother, a spare, lovely woman, raised him in their two-room 19th century apartment. From an early age Grove was marked as the son of a capitalist and as a Jew. His parents hoped that with hard work he could overcome the prejudices...
...nearly died. Budapest was swept by a scarlet fever epidemic, and young Andras succumbed. He remembers waking up in the hospital and thinking to himself, "I'm dead. I'm in my grave looking up at the sky." The fever left a mark: his eardrums were perforated like a colander, the result of a middle-ear infection...
Next summer, Gyorffy will compete in the European Championships in her home city of Budapest. Currently she is ranked 24th in the world for all ages in the high jump. She has been the Hungarian national champion several times in the past...