Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. Written by a master of twentieth-century Hungarian literature, it describes life for the Jewish population of German-occupied Budapest--the constant fear of deportation overshadowing the daily trials of living in the ghetto--before concentrating on the writer's own internment in a labor camp during the first weeks of rule by the extremist Arrow Cross regime. The...
Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short...
Relates the events following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, focusing on the author's own three week internment if a forced labour camp.
Relates the events following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, focusing on the author's own three week internment if a forced labour cam...
