Steven Fenves, U.S. Army, Holocaust Survivor
Steven Fenves and his family enjoyed a nice middle class life in Hungary for his first ten years. In 1941, Hungarian authorities began discriminating against Jewish families. Within three years, he and his family were headed for the notorious concentration and death camps.In this edition of "Veterans Chronicles," Fenves provides incredible detail as he describes the persecution his family faced from 1941-1945, his time at the brutal Auschwitz camp, moving to a smaller facility near Buchenwald, and his eventual liberation by U.S. forces.Fenves also tells us about escaping the expansion of Communism and getting to the U.S. after the war, serving in the U.S. Army, and his determination to inform as many people as possible about the truth of the Holocaust.