Black and white ‘1945’ shows Jews in post-war Hungary faced a rainbow of gray

By Jordan Hoffman NEW YORK — The train rolls into the station, and the villagers know things are about to change. “They’re back,” the town clerk/drugstore owner/erstwhile feudal lord says. Who’s back? Jews. It is 1945 and Hungary has been liberated by the Soviet Union. From a radio we hear that Japan has yet to surrender,…