How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry Ernő Munkácsi, Nina Munk, Péter Balikó Lengyel
Ernő Munkácsi (1896–1950) served as secretary of the Hungarian Central Jewish Council (Judenrat) established in Budapest immediately after the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944. This position allowed him to observe at first-hand the terrible events that followed: the arrival of Adolf Ei...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 434-435 |
| Review of: | How it happened (Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018) (Nemes, Robert)
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| Summary: | Ernő Munkácsi (1896–1950) served as secretary of the Hungarian Central Jewish Council (Judenrat) established in Budapest immediately after the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944. This position allowed him to observe at first-hand the terrible events that followed: the arrival of Adolf Eichmann’s murderous Sonderkommando, the Jews’ confused and uncertain responses to repression, the chilling indifference of the Hungarian government, the rapid deportations to Auschwitz of roughly 430,000 provincial Jews, the desperate attempts to save Budapest’s Jews, and the coup on October 15 that brought to power the fascist Arrow Cross. How It Happened, which appeared in Hungarian in 1947, represents an early attempt to document and make sense of this tragedy. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz048 |