Paul rose in Intercontinental to manage packing operations in Hungary. Romania. Bulgaria. and Yugoslavia. When war broke out. managers with Jewish backgrounds were not tolerated in Hungarian business. but Pauls employees so admired him that they acknowledged his indispensability by demanding that he stay on to run the plant. which supplied meat to the Hungarian Army. In 1944. after the German occupation of Hungary. Paul witnessed the deportation of his entire family to Auschwitz. he never saw them again. He was placed in a detention camp. escaped and found refuge in the Portuguese Embassy in Budapest. As the Soviet Army descended upon the Hungarian capital.
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