Gara escaped the Iron Curtain and went on to work at the cutting\u002Dedge of the communications revolution in London and Ottawa
Ottawa’s George Gara benefited from all three as a boy in Budapest, Hungary during the Second World War.
George Gara was born in Budapest on March 11, 1932 when anti-Semitism was on the boil. Jews were being blamed for Hungary’s disastrous defeat in the First World War, a short-lived communist takeover, and the country’s economic troubles.Article contentHigh schools, he said, educated Christians and Jews separately, while swimming pools posted signs that read, ‘No admission for dogs or Jews.’
In March 1944, German forces moved in to install a more compliant government and keep Hungary involved in the war. Within weeks, the mass deportation of Hungary’s Jews began.Article content “Again, the capriciousness of fate was in our favour,” Gara recalled. Advancing Russian forces cut the railway line, making it impossible for the deportations to proceed. The Jews were marched back into the city.Article content
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