Francis O'Brien

Slave Laborer; a Holocaust Survivor Story Francis O'Brien

Stephen Berger was 16 years old when the Nazis invaded Hungary in March of 1944. As a Jew he was taken from his home in Debrecen, along with his Mother and Sister. First they were sent to a ghetto then to a concentration camp followed by a labor camp and finally to a factory in Vienna Hungary. Over the course of a year Stephen will face the challenges of hunger, cruelty, hard labor and the constant threat of death. How does a 16 year old grow up overnight while trying to protect his family?