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...When I started to think about coming to Harvard, I knew that [Gyorffy] was here,” Cserny said. “I called her, and we met in Budapest...
...wartime Hungary, Andris--age eight and passing as a gentile under the Slavic name Andris Malesevics--learned never to urinate in front of other children, lest his circumcised penis give him away. Sensible policy. In Budapest's City Park one day in 1943, a little girl turned to him and said, "Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews, and because of that, all the Jews will be thrown into the Danube." The child adumbrated Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi bureaucrat who months later took charge of the deportation and extermination of Hungarian Jews...
...raids in Budapest started in 1943. The family was dozing in an air-raid shelter in the middle of the night when a nearby apartment house was hit: "It looked like a big knife had sliced off the front half of every floor. You could see into the apartments on all four stories, like a doll's house." In March 1944 the German army marched into Hungary: "The German soldiers...wore shiny boots and had a self-confident air about them. They reminded me of my toy soldiers...I was impressed." Soon the Jews were required to wear a yellow...
...enthusiasm for study abroad comes at the same time as a severe housing shortage. Indeed, Lewis noted to council members that “the best overflow housing is in Budapest and Thailand.” Encouraging more students to study abroad naturally means that fewer students will live on campus each year. But Lewis and other administrators are right to recognize that the current housing crunch should not be the primary motive behind the push to improve study abroad. Regardless of the housing situation, we feel that study in a foreign culture is in itself good for a student?...
...think the best overflow housing is in Budapest and Thailand. There’s a lot of university housing all over the world that we should be making use of that is currently underutilized by Harvard College,” he said...