RT Review
T1 Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Myth, History and Holocaust, Paul A. Levine (London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2010), xviii + 392 pp., cloth 74.95, pbk. 32.95
JF Holocaust and genocide studies
VO 26
IS 1
SP 144
OP 145
A1 Dietrich, Donald J. 1941-
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1814480706
AB Raoul Wallenberg's story has emerged as one of the bright lights shining through a dark period of modern European history. Some Hungarian Jewish survivors have viewed him as virtually an angel from heaven, others as a genuine “altruistic personality.” For some he was a hero racing around Budapest to save Jews. Literature, film, and television have created a man of mythic heroism. As Levine suggests, however, Wallenberg can also be seen as an ordinary man confronting extraordinary evil., Levine effectively argues that the myths detract from Wallenberg's real-life story, contending that Wallenberg becomes an even more significant moral symbol when the historical complexities are understood.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/hgs/dcs020