bánáthy later traded for milk to give two-year-old béla and one-year-old lászló enough protein. as extremely little food was available in the camps, in early 1947 his wife's twin sister came from hungary to take their older two sons back to live with the older sister. the pallendal family, bánáthy's in-laws, was well-educated and relatively wealthy, so they had access to more food than what was available in the camps. they intended to return the banathy boys to their parents within a year. beginning in early 1948, when the cold war ensued, it became virtually impossible for refugees or displaced persons to cross from the border of one country into another, or even from one occupation zone to another. the pallendal family could not return the two boys from behind the iron curtain.