**Swimming Across** is a poignant memoir of the coming-of-age of Andris Grof, a Jewish refugee from Budapest who, as Andy Grove and head of Intel, became one of America's phenomenal success stories. In addition to the daily terror and struggle of successive occupations by the Nazis, the Soviet Army and the cruelly repressive Hungarian Communists, Grof also suffered from scarlet fever, which left him partially deaf and with a weakened heart. He recounts his escape to Vienna and then to America, aided by the International Rescue Committee. The book is a moving reminder of the meaning of America and the grit and courage of a remarkable young man, marked for success.

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Swimming Across is a poignant, but uplifting memoir of the coming-of-age of Andris Grob, a Jewish refugee from Budapest. In addition to the daily terror and struggle of successive occupations by the Nazis, the Soviet Army and the cruelly, repressive Hungarian Communists, Grob also suffered from scarlet fever which left him partially deaf and with a weakened heart. He recounts his escape to Vienna and then to America, aided by the International Rescue Committee, his embrace of his new country and his becoming Andrew Grove, a chemistry student at City College in New York. There, the book ends. His phenomenal success as Chairman of Intel lies far in the future. But one is left with a moving reminder of the meaning of America and the grit and courage of a remarkable young man, marked for success.

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*Swimming Across* is a poignant but uplifting memoir of the coming-of-age of Andris Grob, a Jewish refugee from Budapest. In addition to the daily terror and struggle of the successive occupations by the Nazis, the Soviet Army and the cruelly repressive Hingarian Communists, scarlet fever has left him partially deaf and with a weakened heart. He recounts his escape alone to America, aided by the International Rescue Committee, his embrace of his new country and his becoming Andrew Grove, a chemistry student at City College in New York. There the book ends. His phenominal success as Chairman of Intel lies far in the future. But one is left with a moving reminder of the meaning of America and the grit and courage of a remarkable young man marked for success.

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DRAFT

*Swimming Across* is a poignant, but uplifting memoir of the coming-of-age of Andris Grob, a Jewish refugee from Budapest. In addition to the daily terror and struggle of successive occupations by the Nazis, the Soviet Army and the cruelly, repressive Hungarian Communists, Grob also suffered from scarlet fever which left him partially deaf and with a weakened heart. He recounts his escape to Vienna and then to America, aided by the International Rescue Committee, his embrace of his new country and his becoming Andrew Grove, a chemistry student at City College in New York. There the book ends. His phenomenal success as Chairman of Intel lies far in the future. But one is left with a moving reminder of the meaning of America and the grit and courage of a remarkable young man, marked for success.

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