From Ruins Erect

From ruins erect Young love starts in the garden houses, outside pit loos of a Hungarian village. It is 1944. The trouble is that one of the lovers is a Jewish boy. The two boys love, but Nazis soon shatter their idyll. The Jews are taken deported to Auschwitz. Will the family survive? Will love reunite? Jews, Christians, Communism, homosexuality, …can there ever be peace, can there ever be reconciliation between communities? The story is based on a news report from Poland, ‘a man demolished his own home, looking for hidden gold that a deported Jewish family might have left. He found no gold and lost his home’. My story is not about him, he is the jumping off point.