My family lived in Kisvarda, Hungary near Nyiregyhaza. My family lived there before the war and then during World War ll were taken to concentration camps. My great grandmother's family were all killed during the war except her. She was taken to Auschwitz, a death camp and survived. She met a man and fell in love with him who became her husband. After the war she went back to Hungary for some time and then moved to America with her husband. They had two sons together. After a while she found out that her brother did survive the Holocaust and was so shocked, thinking he hadn't survived. She spoke to him and they reunited.
My last name is Pearl, which means a Pearl that comes from the word Perla. In those days your last name came from the job you worked. So if you worked and traded Pearls this would have been your last name.