In Depth:  Kel Richards

After surviving unbelievable horrors in war-torn Hungary, Kitty escaped to Vienna and then as a refugee to Australia. It was there, years later, that she was visited by Ken Short, the minister of a local church...

As their conversation went on Kitty found herself explaining to Ken how she felt that she didn't belong. She didn't belong to Hungary any longer, and she only belonged to Australia as a late-arrival, not a native; she didn't belong to the Jews; she didn't belong to the Roman Catholics - she didn't belong anywhere. That was how she felt. Although her mother was still alive, her father and all her male relatives had been killed in the death camps. If she had gone back to Budapest she would have found not one single living relative there.

'Forgiving Hitler' - the shocking title of a new book - tells the story of a young Hungarian Jewish woman, Kitty Kalafoni, who survived the Nazi persecution by hiding in Budapest, and subsequently came to Christ.

At the opening of the book, Kitty is in an Austrian boarding school at the time of the Anschluss - a bloodless coup when Hitler took over the country. Unbeknown to her, the school is run by Nazi sympathisers...