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Forgotten Massacre : Budapest in 1944 / Andrea Petö.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pető, Andrea, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Hungary--Budapes.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Dely, Piroska, 1913 or 1916-1946.
- Dely, Piroska.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations, map
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]
- Summary:
- The book discusses a formerly unknown and invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944, committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Andrea Pető uncovers the gripping history of the fi rst private Holocaust memorial erected in Budapest in 1945. Based on court trials, interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and investigators, the book illustrates the complexities of gendered memory of violence. It examines the dramatic events: massacre, deportation, robbery, homecoming, and fi ght for memorialization from the point of view of the perpetrators and the survivors. The book will change the ways we look at intimate killings during the Second World-War.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-127) and indexes.
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