Maria is interviewed by her daughter and grand-daughter in Ithaca about her experience as a 10 year old girl whose family hid a Jewish family in their home on the outskirts of Budapest near the end of the war. Maria's father owned a shoe shop for making custom shoes, and his Jewish employee, Ede Hajos, asked Maria's father to look after his wife, daughters and sister while he was sent to a labor camp. Maria's mother and aunt took in eight members of the family altogether, and Maria recalls what the conditions were like in their home, as the Germans invaded Hungary in October 1944, and the fascist Arrow Cross party took over the country Ede Hajos did not return to his family, but everyone else in his family survived thanks to the courage of Maria's mother and aunt. In 2011 at the Israeli consulate in New York city, Maria received a Righteous of the Nations award from Yad Vashem in recognition of her family's bravery.
