Munkácsi, Ernő,

How It Happened Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry / Ernő Munkácsi ; translated from the Hungarian by Peter Baliko Lengyel ; edited by Nina Munk ; annotated by Laszlo Csosz and Ferenc Laczo. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (391 pages)

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; HOW IT HAPPENED; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Maps; The Excruciating Dilemmas of Ernő Munkácsi; The Life and Times of Ernő Munkácsi; HOW IT HAPPENED: DOCUMENTING THE TRAGEDY OF HUNGARIAN JEWRY; Dedication; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Entrapment of Hungarian Jewry; 3 From Yellow Star to Ghetto; 4 The Auschwitz Protocols and Their Fallout; 5 Deportations from the Provinces/Star-Marked Buildings in Budapest; 6 The Role of the Christian Churches; 7 The Struggle to Save the Jews of Budapest; 8 Between Two Deportation Dates 9 In the Shadow of Destiny under the Lakatos CabinetGlossary; Contributors; Index

A detailed, first-hand account of the atrocities committed against Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.



9780773555815


Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives.


Electronic Books.

DS135 / .H695 2018