| In the Hour of Fate and Danger Contributor(s): Andai, Ferenc (Author), Morry, Marietta (Translator), Muir, Lynda (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1988065569 ISBN-13: 9781988065564 Publisher: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - Education | History - History | Jewish - General |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 298 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
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| Publisher Description: Portents of death are trembling in the air, writes Ferenc Andai, waiting to discover his fate at the hands of the cruel German overseers of his labor-service company. Having spent the last four months haunted by hunger and the volatile conditions of his captivity, witnessing atrocities committed against his fellow Jewish prisoners and experiencing relentless fear and exhaustion, Ferenc dreads what will happen next. Will a farewell to his mentors, among them the famed poet Mikl s Radn ti, a forced retreat on razor-sharp rocky roads and a struggle for power between collaborationists and partisans lead to his liberation or his demise? |
Contributor Bio(s): Muir, Lynda: - Lynda Muir was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. She has always had a passion for languages and literature. An M.A. graduate in German literature, she taught English in Quebec and Botswana. In 1974, she moved to Ottawa, where she worked as a translator from German to English before embracing a 25-year-long career as editor for the National Gallery of Canada. Her collaboration with Marietta Morry on Anna Hegedüs's memoir As the Lilacs Bloomed (Azrieli Foundation, 2014) won them the John Glassco Prize from the Literary Translators' Association of Canada in 2015.Morry, Marietta: - Marietta Morry was born in Budapest, Hungary. She immigrated to Canada at age twenty, graduating from McGill University with an M.Sc. in Mathematics. After she moved to Ottawa, she became acquainted with memoir author Ferenc Andai. While pursuing a career as methodologist for Statistics Canada, Marietta translated several literary texts from Hungarian into English. Since 2012, she has been collaborating on translations from Hungarian with Lynda Muir, mostly on works within the Azrieli Foundation's Holocaust Survivor Memoir series. In 2015, her collaboration with Lynda Muir on Anna Hegedüs's memoir As the Lilacs Bloomed (Azrieli Foundation, 2014) won them the John Glassco Prize from the Literary Translators' Association of Canada.Andai, Ferenc: - Ferenc Andai (1925-2013) was born in Budapest, Hungary. In 1957 he immigrated to Canada, obtaining an MA in Slavic Studies from the Université de Montréal and a teaching diploma from McGill University, then a PhD in history from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. His book Mint tanu szólni: bori történet (To Bear Witness: A Story of Bor) was published in 2003 and awarded the Radnóti Miklós National Prize in 2004. |