Greatest Generation author Katherine Griesz, is a retired executive assistant/New York City tour lecturer and urban historian. She was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, speaks five languages, and at 18 years old, following the Holocaust, escaped with her life from under the Communist regime there. Her book "From The Danube To The Hudson" (Amazon/CreateSpace) is a riveting, riches-to-rags-to-America biography covering three generations of her wealthy family's rise, fall, loves, losses and the will to survive the overwhelming odds of WWII, the Iron Curtain, and the challenges of emigration. She and her husband are now U.S. citizens and make their home in Queens, New York.