Erika Taubner Gold was born in 1932 in Budapest, Hungary, 4 months before Adolph Hitler came to power.
As a girl, Erika watched Hitler's rise, culminating in Hitler's eventual invasion of Hungary in 1944.
In Erika's words: "In order to survive, you had to be at the right place at the right time, you and to be the right age, you had to have somebody helping you, and you had to be very lucky. That's the only way any of us survived."
This is Erika's story.