Hortobágy River in Hortobágy, Hungary

ID: 97 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: Nyar94 ~ Date: 2012
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Hortobágy is the largest continuous natural grassland in Europe. This region lies between the Romanian border and Budapest, where Andre Kessler would have walked with his mother on the dark night of their border crossing.

ID: A landscape featuring a river, surrounded by green grass, bordering a flat, yellow grassland.

This file appears in: Crossing into Hungary

By Andre Kessler
"When my mother and I got to the Romanian-Hungarian border and these people saw that I was an eight-year-old boy they panicked. They were afraid that I would make a noise and give them away. In addition to what my father had paid them-- there…