The Park Hotel, built 1933, designed by Czech-Hungarian architect Ladislas Hudec, the Hungarian consul who protected the Szekeres family. It remained the highest building in Shanghai until 1985.

Esther remembers: ‘ We had some contact with the Hungarian community that lived in Shanghai, our Doctor for instance, who was, he did everything without any charge, actually, to us, he brought to life my son and he was Hungarian too. And he lived in Shanghai, by that time for 20 years.  … there was practically no sign of the Hungarian fascists We never got in any contact with that sort of, I, I don’t know if it existed, the sort of Hungarian colony who would say, in fact the Hungarians that we met there including the Consul, Ladislaus Hudec who was the prominent architect of the Shanghai, I don’t know, if not the most prominent architect in Shanghai at the time. And they wouldn’t have a bar of what was is happening in…. I was giving private lessons, mathematics lessons, and the other great architect was Hungarian, had a son who went to the German school and they asked me to give a few mathematics lessons to this boy. I said, it’s alright, but he goes to the German school and I am Jewish. And the father said, oh we don’t look at that here. George adds; ‘ Certainly they were very liberal minded the people who got stuck, they are not Jewish mind you, neither of these people were Jewish but they wouldn’t have a bar of what was happening in Hungary.’