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But he eventually gets a job redecorating a sitting room for a very rich man named Harrison Van Buren. The room so impresses Van Buren that he hires Laszlo to build an elaborate multi-purpose building for him, a job that will take years and require Laszlo to live on-site.
While this is happening, Van Buren’s lawyers move mountains to get Laszlo’s wife and niece to America (they were split up in the Holocaust). When she finally gets there, Laszlo learns that she’s permanently wheelchair-bound due to extreme malnutrition from the concentration camps.
