tom: my name is tom hoffman, and i am 70 years old. i was born on may 8, 1944, in budapest, hungary. a few months earliererhe germaas had entered to, uh, to complete the finin solution, w which was the extermination of all jewsws. we had entered the budapest ghetto, but my mother knew that we couldn't stay there. so we were hidden in a christian family for several months. margit and pista worked for my dad. and margit came into the ghetto and carried me and my sister out as if we were her children. she took us into her home and she hid us. when the germans came, we were puttnto a falslse wall. fromom e miracle, the two infants never cried. these were heroic people who risked their lives. how do you...pay back, you know, someone who did thatat? we were hidden until the liberation early in 1945, when the russians and the americans entered budapest. i feel v very fortunate. i i fel very lucky. and, uh, and i know a lot of people were deprived of that. children. we knonow as the mothers werere wawalking to t the gas chahambe, sometetimes h