(upbeat rock music playing) (TV clicking) (static buzzing) (tense music playing) (clicker clicking) (static buzzing) (curtain rail rattling) (warm funky music) (TV rattling) >>My parents were acrobats.

(slow warm music playing) My mom was from Hungary and my dad was from a small village in China.

Mom and dad met in Europe at the start of World War II.

It was lucky that dad had a Chinese passport.

Who knows what would've happened without it.

>>In Budapest, life was fairly normal.

Manfung found work.

Magda quit show business.

Magda and Manfung had a son, Gary.

(trucks rattling) On March 19th, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary, where more than 800,000 Jews were still living.

Manfung heard of the invasion from his booking agent.

>>He said, "Do you know the bad news?"

I said, "What bad news?"

He said, "Didn't you hear the German are here?"

I said, "No kidding."

He said, "No."

And when I left him, I went to the, you know, main street.

I saw truck after truck, the German army, you know, come by.

That was terrible.