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Born in 1889, Anna Porter's grandfather, Vili Rácz, was a patriot and an Olympic athlete, a magician and a lawyer, a publisher and a prisoner, a philanderer and a devoted family man. On long walks through the once-grand European capital of Budapest, in confidences whispered in s…
As a child growing up in the once-beautiful city of Budapest, Anna Porter's grandfather told her stories of heroes and strife and survival, some as old as the Carpathian basin, some still holding the sting of recent war and hardship. Some were fanciful, most were true, and all g…
A powerful, moving, and very personal memoir of "dancing around death" under the Nazi regime, by the father of billionaire financier George Soros. "Life is beautiful," begins Tividar Soros in this powerful and very personal memoir. "But luck must be on your side." Nevertheless, …
Éppen száz esztendeje annak, hogy 1920 márciusában Horthy Miklóst Magyarország kormányzójának választották. Személye és közel negyedszázados regnálása körül emlékezetpolitikai és közéleti viták dúlnak. Hívei szerint ő konszolidálta az országot, mindent megtett azért, hogy Magyar…
A magyarországi szélsőjobb történetét kutató fiatal történész, Paksa Rudolf az idei Ünnepi Könyvhétre két kötettel is jelentkezett. A Magyar nemzetiszocialisták című munka általánosságban mutatta be az 1930-as évek új szélsőjobboldali mozgalmát, annak pártjait, politikusait és s…
This volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Hara…
"This volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Har…
This volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Hara…
