| Confronting Devastation: Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary Contributor(s): Laczó, Ferenc (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1988065682 ISBN-13: 9781988065687 Publisher: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (0.15 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Commemorating seventy-five years since Nazi Germany occupied Hungary, Confronting Devastation, an anthology of writing from Hungarian Holocaust survivors, examines the experiences and memory of the Holocaust in Hungary. From idyllic pre-war life to forced labour battalions, ghettos and camps, and persecution and hiding in Budapest, the authors reflect on lives that were shattered, on the sorrows that came with liberation and, ultimately, on how they managed to persevere. Editor Ferenc Laczó frames excerpts from some twenty memoirs in their historical and political context, analyzing the events that led to the horrific last chapter of the Holocaust--the genocide of approximately 550,000 Jews in Hungary in 1944. |
Contributor Bio(s): Laczo, Ferenc: - Ferenc Laczó is assistant professor in history at Maastricht University. He is the author of Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide. An Intellectual History, 1929-1948 (2016) and co-editor (with Joachim von Puttkamer) of Catastrophe and Utopia: Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s (2017). His articles have appeared in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Leo Baeck Institute Year Book and Yad Vashem Studies, among others. In 2019, Ferenc Laczó will be a Yetta and Jacob Gelman Fellow at the Mandel Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. |