Children Quote by Michael Korda

My parents are Hungarian.

— Steve Hilton

I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet."…

— Csanad Szegedi

My father's family is German and Czech.

— Sissy Spacek

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

— Rhea Perlman

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had…

— Elliot Perlman

My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish…

— Francois Englert

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

— Bela Karolyi

Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also…

— Tibor Fischer

In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than…

— Susan Faludi

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that…

— Morris Gleitzman

It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started to hate…

— Eddie Izzard

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that…

— Ayad Akhtar