Hello and welcome this is the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson

the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week the tragic consequences of Chauchescu's ban on abortion in Romania. It's a matter of shame. It's still a metal of fear. Women never talked about this.

Plus the 1980s murder of the campaigning Nigerian journalist Delagua.

The force that came towards my direction was still powerful enough to lift me up that

year. My glasses were, you know were off, I gained consciousness and staggered out of the wreckage.

Also this week, the beginnings of the satirical magazine Private Eye and the creative coupling of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

It was a great love affair to me, which lasted from 1929 until 1980, 51 years.

But we begin with a story of bravery and survival in the latter stages of the Second World War.

In 1944, Nazi Germany occupied Hungary, a country which had been fighting alongside

the Axis powers and had relied heavily on its links with the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy.

The Nazi occupation came about after Hitler discovered

that the Hungarian authorities were negotiating an armistice with Britain and the US.

Up until that point Hungarian Jews had been relatively protected from the horrors perpetrated

against the Jews in the rest of Nazi-occupied Europe. But once the German tanks rolled in, the

writing was on the wall. David Gure was part of a Jewish Hungarian underground group

that produced tens of thousands of forged documents to save Jews from deportation to the concentration

camps. He's been telling Mike Lanchin about his wartime resistance efforts. When the Germans invaded Hungary I changed my identification documents to Arian. I left the flat I was living in as a Jew and started to live with a different identity as a Gentile. A few days later, the leaders of the underground Zionist youth movement told me I'd be joining a team to forge documents.

I became part of the biggest rescue operation during the Holocaust, run by Jews. I was 18 at the time.

David Gurr is now 91 years old. He's lively and clear thinking despite his age. As a young man he lived

through a period of extraordinary danger and drama in his native Hungary, resisting Nazi occupation.

It was in March of 1944 when Hitler ordered the invasion of Hungary.

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