After enduring more than two years in a Hungarian Army forced labor brigade and surviving six months in the Mauthausen concentration camp, Andy's father, Erno Pasztor, in 1956 led his family to escape Communist-controlled Budapest. By creating a new life as immigrants in the U.S., he gave his only child the opportunity to thrive. Andy worked for more than 40 years as a journalist with The Wall Street Journal, wrote a book chronicling Pentagon corruption, When the Pentagon Was for Sale, and years later participated in a Netflix documentary unraveling twin Boeing 737 crashes, titled Downfall: The Case Against Boeing. He serves as a docent with Holocaust Museum LA. Andy and his wife, Eileen Mayers Pasztor, a child welfare social worker and professor emerita whose training programs are used internationally, decades ago adopted a Jewish child to honor the approximately 1.5 million children who were murdered by the Nazis.