Review Article: "A Hungarian Refugee in England and Holland." Pogany, George. 2012. When Even the Poets Were Silent: The Life of a Jewish Hungarian Holocaust Survivor under Nazism and Communism. Afterword by Istvan Pogany. Kenilworth, UK: Brandram, Imprint of Takaway Publishing. 263 pp.; Pogany, George. 2014. Where Is My Home? A Hungarian Refugee in England and Holland. Lexington KY: CreateSpace. 209 pp. Illus.
The personal experiences of individuals who lived through the catastrophes of World War II, the Holocaust and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution have been told in many recent memoirs, greatly expanding our understanding of these historical events. In addition to the experiences of the narrators, the fate of their family members, friends, colleagues and entire communities who were all impacted by these events are also illuminated in these accounts. The two memoirs by George Pogany (b. 1928) cover his life since the early 1930s in Hungary, the Holocaust, communism, his escape to the West in 1956, his... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Hungarian Cultural Studies, Vol 9, Iss 0, Pp 220-230 (2016) |
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University Library System
University of Pittsburgh |
Schlagwörter: | Memoir / life writing / Hungarian Jews / World War II / Holocaust / communism / the 1956 Hungarian Revolution / expatriate experiences / émigré authors / international management training / Hungary / DB901-999 / Language and Literature / P |
Sprache: | Englisch Hungarian |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26711884 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2016.257 |