Confronting Devastation: Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary

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.

Author: Ferenc Laczó
Publisher: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
Published: 12/01/2019
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781988065687
ISBN10: 1988065682
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- History | Europe | Austria & Hungary
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical

About the Author
Ferenc Lacz 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 Lacz will be a Yetta and Jacob Gelman Fellow at the Mandel Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.