We’re waiting for Beri, for when he comes through the door.
Suddenly it’s quiet in the kitchen. The kitchen door opens and Beri, my brother who we were expecting, comes in. One can read it all in his face. People surround him and ask from the left, from the right, how it was. The poor child, he is only 18. He is a big child. He enjoys the attention and does not know whom he should answer first. My mother walks towards him and slowly asks questions. She knows better how to make him talk. She puts fresh dinner in front of him and, what a miracle, he begins to talk. The invasion of Budapest and how the Hungarians were taken off-guard. That’s how the first day under German occupation passed.