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Essay Heirlooms from Hungary Sophie Cook’s family history and childhood experience of surviving the Holocaust in Hungary inform her first historical novel, Anna & Elizabeth. Sophie… Sophie Cook June 6, 2016
Nonfiction Raoul Wallenberg: The Heroic Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust Ingrid Carlberg; Ebba Segerberg, trans.; Kofi A. Annan, intro.
Essay My Wallenberg Education in Budapest, Stockholm, and Moscow Earlier this week, Alan Lelchuk wrote about meeting Daniel Pagliansky, Wallenberg’s KGB interrogator. Lelchuk is the author of the acclaimed novels, American… Alan Lelchuk May 6, 2015
Nonfiction The Kasztner Report: The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee, 1942 – 1945 Rezső Kasztner; edited by László Karsai and Judit Molnár
Nonfiction Food, Family and Tradition: Hungarian Kosher Family Recipes and Remembrances Lynn Shapiro
Nonfiction Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War Robert Rozett
Nonfiction The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary Randolph L. Braham, ed.
Essay Never Alone, Never Lonely Gabi Gleichmann was born in Budapest in 1954 and moved to Sweden at the age of 10. After studies in literature and philosophy, he worked as a journalist and… Gabi Gleichmann September 30, 2013
Nonfiction Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoirs of Valdemar Langlet 1944 – 1945 Valdemar Langlet
Nonfiction I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
Nonfiction A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.
Nonfiction Rezso Kasztner: The Daring Rescue of Hungarian Jews: A Survivor’s Account Ladislaus Lob
