This journal tells us about the German Army that occupied Hungary in March 1944, "They assembled all the Jews who could work," says Alfred Lakos, now 79. "My father was about 47 and he was young and strong." Both Laszlo 's father and his uncle were sent to a labour camp. Soon after, his mother, Rozsi Schonberg Lakos, tried to steal her husband's food in a Budapest station. "She failed to wear the yellow star and they called for her paperwork," Alfred says. "We arrested her because of that. "Rozsi died in Auschwitz.