The recognized cultural historian and researcher of the Middle Ages relates about the gruesome year of 1944 in Hungary; as she has seen the events with the eyes of a small Jewish girl. The memoir describes life in Budapest and in Komarom; in the Hungarian countryside; in the preceding years before March 1944 when the German army marched in; and what happened thereafter. "It is not true that you can no longer write anything new about the Holocaust. All you need is an excellent memory; restraint; irony hidden among the lines; and know-how. The bulk of Marianna D. Birnbaum's book is about her relatives; her childhood friends and their parents who have not returned. She attached photos of several of them; here and there the author too appears as a small child. Well-to-do adults; nicely dressed children: They ought to have lived out their days in peace. With a vision pointing toward the grotesque and using experience honed on literary criticism; the author avoids provoking our tears. That makes this book beautiful and true." (G. Spiro)
#19205707 in Books 1992-12Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .60 x 6.70 x 9.40l; 1.05 #File Name: 9069800365268 pages
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