Andor Rostás was born in 1906 in Miskolc, Hungary, as Andor Rosenthal. He survived five concentration camps during World War II but lost his family. In 1957, he and his new wife and child arrived in Australia as refugees, and he became a senior technical advisor and translator of Italian and German technical articles until he retired in 1971. In 1965, he wrote an account of his Holocaust journey, which sat in a drawer for more than fifty years. Andor Rostás died in 1989