LASZLO SELLY

About Laszlo

In 1944 Laszlo’s family was forced into a designated Jewish house, known as a Yellow Star House, in the Budapest Ghetto. From their window, Laszlo watched thousands of Jews being marched down the street to the trains to Auschwitz. When Laszlo’s father obtained a Raoul Wallenberg certificate of protection, the family moved to a so-called safe house. From there Laszlo listened to the screams as Jews were murdered on the banks of the Danube River.

After liberation, Laszlo and his twin brother completed their education in Hungary under intense communist indoctrination. The brothers escaped from Hungary during the 1956 Revolution and made their way to New York Laszlo where became a successful photographer, a profession he studied in Hungary.