Remembering Resistance : A Jewish Memoir from Nazi-Occupied Budapest, 1944-45.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eger, A. Asa.

Contributor:

Eger, A. Asa.

Frojimovics, Kinga

Kovács, Éva.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

An illuminating chronicle of the life and work of Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, liberating oppressed Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest, Remembering Resistance offers an unrivalled insight into a family's personal history of resistance and provides a paradigm for mediating our methods of remembrance.

Contents:

Remembering Resistance

Contents

Illustrations and Documents

Editor's Note

Preface: The Life and Legacy of My Grandparents

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Shared Experiences, Divided Memories: Diplomats and Jewish Rescuers in Budapest, 1944-1945

Part I - The Hungary Years, 1942-1949

Chapter 1 - Budapest, 1944-1945: A Memoir by László Szamosi

Chapter 2 - Documents during the War, 1942-1945

Chapter 3 - The Safe Houses of Budapest Where the Szamosis Lived

Chapter 4 - Documents after the War, 1945-1949

Chapter 5 - Houses after the War, 1944-1949

Part II - The Komoly Years, 1950s to 1980s

Chapter 6 - Komoly Memorial Lecture at Bet Hahalutzot, Haifa (1952): Federation of Hungarian Jews, 17 January

Chapter 7 - The Yad Vashem Correspondence, Part One (1958)

Chapter 8 - Komoly Memorial Lecture at Beitenu, Haifa (1975)

Part III - The Wallenberg Years, 1981-1986

Chapter 9 - László Szamosi and John Bierman's Righteous Gentile (1981, 1982)

Chapter 10 - Szamosi as a Promoter for Wallenberg's Rise to Fame (1981-1986)

Chapter 11 - Organizing the First World Congress on Hungarian Jews (1982-1984)

Chapter 12 - Forty Years After . . . László Szamosi's Speech in Beer Sheva (1984)

Chapter 13 - Honoring László Szamosi upon His Death (1986)

Part IV - The Perlasca Years, Part One: 1986-1992

Chapter 14 - The Yad Vashem Correspondence, Part Two (1989-1990)

Chapter 15 - The World-Famous "Perlasca Circus" by Eugenia Szamosi

Chapter 16 - The Oral History of Eugenia Szamosi, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Correspondence, Part One (1990)

Chapter 17 - Bözsi's Last Battle: Fighting Back with the Media

Part V - The Perlasca Years, Part Two: 1998-2023

Chapter 18 - The Temple Emanu-El Panel (1998).

Chapter 19 - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Correspondence, Part Two (2013-2015) and Arcadi Espada's L'autentica impostura (2013-2021)

Epilogue

Appendix 1 - List of Jews Rescued with Szamosi's Involvement

Appendix 2 - Szamosi Family Tree

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80539-815-6

OCLC:

1568057527