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Memoirs from Hungary, 1940-1956 (signed copy)
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Memoirs from Hungary, 1940-1956 (signed copy)
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Memoirs from Hungary, 1940-1956 (signed copy)
In 1956, at the time of the Hungarian Revolution, Kopacsi was police chief in Budapest. He had fought in the anti-Nazi Resistance and welcomed the Soviet Army. Purges in the police forces during the early 1950s eventually led him to question Soviet motives. He and seven other leaders were tried and sentenced to long prison terms. This fascinating insider’s account adds a new dimension to Hungary’s history.
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
(leather cover, numbered copy) The country was disrupted into three parts during the Ottoman expansion then two of its parts were united. The large area became one political unit again in the middle of the 19th century. The nation was split into five parts in 1920.