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A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture, a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city’s history
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A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture, a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city’s history
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A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture, a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city’s history
Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who experienced the night of 3 March 1949. He spoke to people who survived the Romanian Gulag and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future.
About the saving of thousands of Jewish orphans by Rabbi Wolf Frei, establishing safe house orphanages, inside Budapest, during the war, and detailing other rescue efforts, by Wallenberg and many other Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers right under the nose of the Hungarian Iron Cross Fascists and the Nazis. It gives a wide panorama of all of the rescue efforts organized within Budapest during the Nazi invasion of Hungary
The story of the Hungarian Revolution from the perspective of a child.