When the Schonberger family were deported from Hungary by the Nazis in 1944 and taken to Strasshoff concentration camp near Vienna, the sight that greeted them on their arrival was that of Ukrainian guards stacking up piles of corpses. Shortly afterwards, Austrian civilians came to the camp asking for labourers - unusully specifying a group of 25 family members and friends. Imre, his family and friends were picked by the guards and taken to Mistelbach-ander-Zaya to work in an experimental horticultural centre. They expected the worst, but were proved wrong, as the townspeople brought gifts of...