Miksa Fenyo

A Nation Adrift (eBook, ePUB)

The 1944-1945 Wartime Diaries of Miksa Fenyo
Übersetzer: Fenyo, Mario

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Miksa Fenyo (1877-1972) a Hungarian writer and intellectual served as member of parliament and briefly was a member of the Hungarian cabinet. He was targeted by the Hungarian fascists and Hitler and had to go into hiding in 1944 after Hungary was occupied by its German allies. This memoir is his diary of the ten months in which he was in hiding. Written by an erudite, well-informed man who, while moving from safe haven to safe haven, nevertheless is able to look at the events of this period with his intellect, who was aware of what was happening in his country and the atrocities being perpetuated in its name, but who never lost his spirit and his hope. Fenyo's fear was never for himself but for his family and for his life long friends.

¿This is a powerful diary and a "real time" recounting of one of the most devastating and shameful periods of Hungarian history. Translated by his son, Mario Fenyo a well known historian and translator, this book which is a valuable recounting of the period that has long deserved to be made available to the Anglophone reader is at last available in English. There is no doubt that it will take its place amongst the most powerful diaries written about the Holocaust.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Helena History Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781943596157
• Artikelnr.: 61307996

Autorenporträt

Miksa Fenyo, one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Hungary, was in hiding from the Gestapo and the Hungarian Fascist Arrow-Cross. Fenyo was one of the founders of Nyugat (Occident, 1908-1941) the most influential Hungarian literary publication of its age, where he served as a founding editor and critic. From March 19, 1944, the date of Hungary's occupation by Germany, until January 19, 1945 when Pest was liberated, he went into hiding in the homes of friends after being targeted for arrest by the Gestapo and their Hungarian cohorts. In 1948 he left Hungary, first relocating to Rome, then Paris, eventually in 1953 he moved to New York City. His last years were spent in Vienna where he passed away in 1972.