They spent several months in the DP Camp at Sluzk. The four of them returned to Budapest in November 1945, where Otvos-Bein's mother had survived the war, hidden in a printing camp. Angela only attained a typical newborn weight of about 6.5 pounds (three kilograms) by her first year. Her mother was the only person who was convinced that she would live. Even her grandmother, who called her Varushka, thought she would die. Her legs were too weak to support her until age seven, and she remained fragile and very short her entire life.
