Half a Million Hungarian Jews were murdered during World War II. He was almost one of them.

Hungary, 1944. Following the wishes of his missing father, Moshe leads his mother and younger sister hand-in-hand into the Budapest Ghetto. At 15 years old, Moshe must keep his fractured, terrified family together in the height of the Nazi occupation – relying on his wits, willpower, and an insurmountable amount of luck to survive.

Hungarian Jew tells the gut-wrenching story of the Jewish population in Hungary before World War II through the eyes of its survivors. With incredibly clear details, author Moshe Kacz recalls the story of his family’s survival – from his youth in Budapest to his ultimate journey to the Jewish homeland.