History of Sorts

This is my interview with Andrew Laszlo, Jr.

I spoke to Andrew Laszlo about his father, Andrew Laszlo Sr., about his career as a cinematographer of such movies as First Blood, Star Trek V, The Last Frontier, Streets of Fire, Southern Comfort, The Owl and the Pussy Cat and The Warriors and also the original series of Shogun.

We discussed the survival of his father during the Holocaust. The following passage was taken from Andrew’s Facebook page, “Footnote to History,” which is also the title of his father’s memoir:

“In March of 1945, When the Germans knew they were losing the war, they put my father and other prisoners on a train to Theresienstadt. No one knows for sure why, but the most likely reason was they thought the allies would go easier on them if they didn’t see 60,000 starving bodies. The Nazis played one last trick. They mounted machine guns on the train. Seeing the guns, Allied planes mistook the train for a troop transport and bombed it. My father and his friend, Frogface, broke open a door and headed for the forest. When they were running six feet apart, Frogface was hit with shrapnel and blown to pieces. My father survived again. After the bombing, he threw the machine guns off and painted Red Crosses on the roof. They arrived in Theresienstadt safely. He was placed in the Hannover Barracks. By the grace of God, he saw his father one last time at Theresienstadt before his father contracted Typhus and died. My father had survived Bergen-Belsen, but the horrors of Theresienstadt loomed ahead.”

Some of Andrew Laszlo, Sr‘s credits for television shows were Naked City, Sergeant Bilko, The Beatles at Shea Stadium, and the already mentioned Shogun. He was also there, saving the day with his ingenuity, when Ed Sullivan first interviewed Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba.

This is my interview with Andrew Laszlo.

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Source

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094652528222

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0489970