Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Olga Zoltai, hero to refugees
Zoltai was 9 years old in 1944 when Nazi forces invaded her Hungarian hometown of Sopron, rounded up neighborhood Jews to be sent to their deaths, and then fled before the Soviet Union's advancing Red Army.
She clearly remembers the nightmare; how her middle class family escaped by donkey cart to Austria and eventually found its way to Alberta, Canada, only to find work as indentured farm laborers in the sugar beet fields. Two years later, the family moved to Toronto.
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