Holocost survivor testimony Anton Mason

Anton Mason born 4/21/1927 in at that time known as Romania was a survivor of the Holocust.He lived a comfortable life with his parents and little brother, his father was a buisness owner and economically they were considered upper middle class, his family were observent jews of the holy holidays,but never very religous.They spoke Hungarian in the home and romanian outside of the home. Aston was a emotional,tempermental child who had alot of friends from school and also played sports like tennis,soccer,and ping pong. At age thirteen his father told him one day he would be his buisness partner after finishing school, it was soon after that the war started.At his Barmitzvah it was a day of celebration but also a sad day because they had heard of all the Jews being killed in Poland as the stories were being told they didnt know how safe their families would be.In 1942 the war was confirmed to his family, his fathers sister showed up and told them of all the Jews being killed and they needed to be took into hiding. In 1944 his family was made to leave home and taken to a ghetto the Hungarian authorities had taken everything from them. They stayed in the ghetto for six weeks and then taken on a cattle cart to the selection in Poland and there was seperated from his mother and brother,he and his father were selected as prisoners and they survived in concentration camps throughout the war as workers. Survivors got used to living with starvation, death, and terror in the camps.There isn't a day that goes by he dosent think about the horror of the holocost. As time went on he became the sucessful buisness man his father knew he would be. Quotes of Aston Mason: "If you drank the water you gave up!" "will the world ever know all of what happened?"