Stories of Impact

The best proof of our impact in the community are the stories about the issues we address and the people that we serve

By Laszlo Somogyi On January 16, 1945, the Soviet Army occupied Budapest and I could resume my real identity and come out from hiding using...

I was ten years old when I left Berlin. It felt like I was going away for summer camp. I was an only child. My...

By Marika Somogyi The first such moment I recall was when I was eleven years old. I am sleeping on a moving train. YES! In...

Alfons Berger By Marika Somogyi When we first arrived at the house we still live in now, 54 years later, a lovely lady knocked on...

My Arrival in America by Laszlo Somogyi Marika and I arrived by a refugee transport airplane from Vienna, Austria on April 5, 1957. Our first...

From A Charmed Life by Marika Somogyi Something magical happened. I woke up to something I thought was an apparition. At the foot of my...

Herta Weinstein tells the story of her journey from the Rhine Valley to San Francisco....

Ilse Eden writes about the experience of both her maternal and paternal grandparents who were born and grew up in Germany....

Loaf of Bread By R.A. Denise ran noiselessly up the narrow path and through the olive grove, dodging the gnarled tree trunks twisted and bent...

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