Agnes Bubik Kormendy began this story as a memoir and family history for her children and grandchildren - a record of her family's life through the horrors of war and occupation of her beloved Hungary. Agnes and her siblings had a childhood surrounded by love and the pleasures of quality education, the rich cultural life of Budapest, summers at Lake Balaton, and holidays at their country house. The Second World War changed all that. The Bubik family could never have imagined the struggles that lay ahead. Through photographs, letters, and personal memories, Agnes has written a story that is about more than one family's struggle to survive. It is also a lesson for all of us on how people can come through tragedy and find the strength to rebuild their lives.