Gaby Laufer, Hungarian born and Israeli native, is a retired University of Virginia Engineering professor. Deploying his scientific research skills to discover unknown details of his father’s Holocaust survival and juxtaposing them with accounts of his own participation in Israeli wars, he created a unique parallel father-and-son narrative.

“This work [is] a unique and important addition to Holocauststudy and Jewish history generally. … Laufer notes in the foreword of his bookhow it is a ‘duty’ that ‘memories of our experiences [both of father and son]and their lessons’ be communicated ‘to our children and the generations tofollow’—just as Elie Wiesel felt. As far as this reviewer is concerned, theauthor of A Survivor’s Duty: Survivingthe Holocaust and Fighting for Israel—A Story of Father and Son has mostdefinitely done his duty.” —Diane Cypkin, Pace University, Martyrdom & Resistance January/February 2019

• AcknowledgmentsForewordJune 1942: Imprisoned in the toloncházJuly 1942: BudapestAugust 1942: Leaving GyulaAugust 1942: Püspökladány, HungarySeptember 1942: Gomel, UkraineSeptember-October 1942: When Man Becomes a HorseOctober-December 1942: Stary OskolMay 1967: Dark Clouds over IsraelMay-June 1967: The Six-Day WarSummer 1967: Messianic Days (or so we thought)January 1943: Near Stalingrad1968-1970: The War of AttritionOctober 1973: The Yom Kippur WarNovember 1944-May 1945: Dachau and Mühldorf, GermanyMay 1945: LiberationJuly 1945: Home at Last1945-1949: BudapestJuly-August 1949: Escape from HungaryJune 1982: A War of DeceptionBibliography

Gaby Laufer, Hungarian born and Israeli native, is a retired University of Virginia Engineering professor. Deploying his scientific research skills to discover unknown details of his father’s Holocaust survival and juxtaposing them with accounts of his own participation in Israeli wars, he created a unique parallel father-and-son narrative.

“This work [is] a unique and important addition to Holocauststudy and Jewish history generally. … Laufer notes in the foreword of his bookhow it is a ‘duty’ that ‘memories of our experiences [both of father and son]and their lessons’ be communicated ‘to our children and the generations tofollow’—just as Elie Wiesel felt. As far as this reviewer is concerned, theauthor of A Survivor’s Duty: Survivingthe Holocaust and Fighting for Israel—A Story of Father and Son has mostdefinitely done his duty.” —Diane Cypkin, Pace University, Martyrdom & Resistance January/February 2019

• AcknowledgmentsForewordJune 1942: Imprisoned in the toloncházJuly 1942: BudapestAugust 1942: Leaving GyulaAugust 1942: Püspökladány, HungarySeptember 1942: Gomel, UkraineSeptember-October 1942: When Man Becomes a HorseOctober-December 1942: Stary OskolMay 1967: Dark Clouds over IsraelMay-June 1967: The Six-Day WarSummer 1967: Messianic Days (or so we thought)January 1943: Near Stalingrad1968-1970: The War of AttritionOctober 1973: The Yom Kippur WarNovember 1944-May 1945: Dachau and Mühldorf, GermanyMay 1945: LiberationJuly 1945: Home at Last1945-1949: BudapestJuly-August 1949: Escape from HungaryJune 1982: A War of DeceptionBibliography