Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica
Angaben zur Quelle:
13 (2005) 201-210
Keywords:
Zsolt, Béla,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Hungarian literature Jewish authors 20th century
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History and criticism
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Jewish ghettos
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Jewish ghettos
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews History 1918-1945
Abstract:
Zsolt was a Jew and a successful Hungarian writer; many of his works dealt with the Jewish situation in Hungary. His book "Kilenc koffer" is a novelistic autobiographical report describing his experiences in 1944 in the Nagyvárad (then Hungary, now Oradea, Romania) ghetto, which he published in 1946 as installments in a journal. From 1925 he lived in Budapest. During the war, he was arrested with other Jews and sent for forced labor to the Hungarian-occupied part of Ukraine. He escaped from there, and went back to his native town Nagyvárad. When the Germans invaded Hungary, he was arrested and interned in the ghetto. From there he was sent to Bergen-Belsen, and managed to get to Switzerland on the Kasztner transport. His 13-year-old daughter died in Auschwitz; his wife survived, but committed suicide after his death.
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