Harry Berger was born on March 26. 1916 in Hungary. During World War II. he and his family were forcibly removed from their homes and taken by the Nazis to live in a crowded Jewish ghetto. Not long after. my father. along with other men his age. were taken by German and Hungarian soldiers to work as slave laborers for the balance of the war. After my father was liberated by American soldiers. and unable to return to his home because it was then under Russian control. he obtained a temporary visa to live and work in Brussels. Belgium. It was there that my father met my mother.