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Published by Bristol, Rhein & Englander, Princeton, New Jersey, 1986
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. This is the incredible story of a courageous young Hungarian Jew who - through a remarkable combination of faith, luck, and daring - survived the ordeals of a labor camp and the Nazi occupation of Budapest. And with G-d's help, he saved not only himself but also…his parents and a host of friends, relatives, and strangers from almost certain death. Slight rubbing to the dust-jacket. book.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Published by Bristol, Rhein and Englander, Princeton, 1986
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Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.COLLINS BOOKS
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HARDCOVER. 2nd edition. 207pp, octavo, inscribed by Wieder. tight binding, clean throughout, clean and colorful boards, crisp pages, Fine clear titles and images, rubbed on front and edges, light stain on front, Good+.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket: Good. Clean, unmarked copy with tight binding. Slight tearing on dust jacket at upper and lower spine, with rubbing and creasing at edges.
Published by Bristol, Rhein & Englander, Princeton, NJ, 1986
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 207, [2] pages. Illustration. Note from the Author. The dust jacket has some wear, soiling, and creases. The Holocaust in Hungary was the dispossession, deportation, and systematic murder of more than half of the Hungarian Jews,… primarily after the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944. At the time of the German invasion, Hungary had a Jewish population of 825,000, the largest remaining in Europe, further swollen by Jews escaping from elsewhere to the relative safety of that country. Fearing Hungary was trying to pursue peace with the Allies (which the diplomat László Veress secretly did in the September of 1943, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion. New restrictions against Jews were imposed soon after Germany occupied Hungary on 19 March 1944. The invading troops included a Sonderkommando which was led by SS officer Adolf Eichmann, who arrived in Budapest in order to supervise the deportation of the country's Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Between 15 May and 9 July 1944, over 434,000 Jews were deported on 147 trains, most of them to Auschwitz, where about 80 percent were gassed on arrival. Diplomatic pressure and the Allied bombing of Budapest persuaded Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, to order a halt to the deportations on 6 July. By the time they had stopped three days later, almost the entire community of Jews in the Hungarian countryside had gone. The mass deportation of Hungarian Jews was the largest Holocaust killing after 1942. This is the incredible story of a courageous young Hungarian Jew who - through a remarkable combination of faith, luck, and daring - survived the ordeals of a labor camp and the Nazi occupation of Budapest. And with God's help, he saved not only himself but also his parents and a host of friends, relatives, and strangers from almost certain death. If Ludvik Wieder's adventures were fiction, they would seem too contrived. But everything told is the unembellished truth. At the age of 26, Ludvik had it allhealth, wealth, good looks, popularity, and a growing business in one of Europe's brightest capitals. Then, one dreadful Sunday in the spring of 1943, the Nazis marched into Budapest and imposed a series of repressive measures that threatened the life of every Jew in Hungary. From that day on, all that mattered was survival. Suddenly, life hung by a shred of paper the proper "Aryan" identification. Determined to survive, Ludvik boldly entered the black market to buy those precious scraps of false identity that might save him and his loved ones from disaster. Soon he was living a double life, outwardly forsaking his Orthodox Jewish upbringing to pose as a gentile, at the same time clinging steadfastly to his beliefs, never for a moment forgetting who he was and where he came from. Soon he became a master of deception whether it was posing as a trusted "gentile" factory employee, disguising himself as a drunken peasant, or assuming the dress and manner of a member of the Hungarian S.S. Somehow, he had the capacity to enlist the aid of an unlikely assortment of non-Jews, who helped him at the peril of their livesamong them, a peasant woman who befriended him in prison and offered her home as his haven for the duration of the war a Hungarian Air Force officer, who "adopted" Ludvik's niece as his own illegitimate child, lent him his apartment as a hiding place and smuggled a series of vital ID papers to him the Skid Row derelict who saved the life of Ludvik's nephew by pretending to be the boy's uncle. The book traces Ludvik's life, beginning with his placid, essentially easygoing boyhood in Czechoslovakia. Then, in 1940, after the Hungarian takeover, he was inducted into forced labor. It describes the cruelty and black humor of the labor camp, which helped him to develop the cunning and ingenuity that enabled him to sharpen his survival skills and avoid being sent to fatal service on the Russian front. The story then focuses on the Nazi occupation, culminati.
