Books by Tibor Timothy Vajda

Tibor Vajda, a 20-year-old Jew escaped from a forced labor camp in October 1944 and joined a resistance group in Budapest. They fought the fascist Arrowcross bandits and freed Jewish men from the ghetto.Vajda's mother and younger brother Laszlo were hiding at a Christian business. They survived mass killings on the streets and on the banks of the Danube, but lost family members in the chaos.When Eva and Tibor got married, they felt they could not live among people who supported murdering Jews. They joined a Zionist group planning to follow them to Palestine.Tibor's father was seen alive but sick on the Austrian border. Before he could leave to find him, eye-witnesses arrived who saw German SS soldiers kill him. Eva got pregnant and Tibor's mother became sick. They got stuck in Hungary.After the war, public anti-Semitism became louder in Hungary. Remnants of the fascist German and Hungarian armies under the patronage of western armies planned to start third world war against the Soviets.Holocaust survivors feared a new fascist takeover. Some young Jewish men joined the political police. Tibor Vajda's decision proved to be fatal. Fugitive of the fascists soon became the victim of the communists.

Inspired by a true story, Countess Megan of Bondi is the fictional account of Megan, a young Australian girl who works at Athena Café, and Pal, a Hungarian immigrant boy. Pal waits for Megan outside the café one afternoon and presents her with a bouquet of flowers. A courtship soon begins, and, before learning much about each other, the two marry. Secrets are gradually revealed through a series of unusual events. Megan accidentally discovers Pal's aristocratic background and his desire to provide an heir to his dynasty. After traveling to Hungary to receive his inheritance, criminals attack Pal and his brother Marton, and the couple leave the country empty-handed. Even though Pal suffers from a condition that makes him unlikely to father a child, Megan becomes pregnant with a son, Attila. Pal's misfortune continues, and an accident leaves him in need of dangerous surgery. His younger brother travels to Sydney to obtain a court order requiring Megan to relinquish Attila to him. Meanwhile, their associate Gergo is found slumped in a hut along with his lifeless son. Who is Attila's natural father? In Countess Megan of Bondi, the innocent passion of young lovers reaches beyond borders and barriers; however, the lovers soon discover they are not safe from the past--a past that ultimately threatens their happiness.