Review Article: "A Hungarian Refugee in England and Holland." Pogany, George. 2012. &lt;i&gt;When Even the Poets Were Silent: The Life of a Jewish Hungarian Holocaust Survivor under Nazism and Communism.&lt;/i&gt; Afterword by Istvan Pogany. Kenilworth, UK: Brandram, Imprint of Takaway Publishing. 263 pp.; Pogany, George. 2014. &lt;i&gt;Where Is My Home? A Hungarian Refugee in England and Holland.&lt;/i&gt; Lexington KY: CreateSpace.

Ruth G Biro

doi:10.5195/ahea.2016.257

Abstract

The personal experiences of individuals who lived through the catastrophes of World War II, the Holocaust and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution have been told in many recent memoirs, greatly expanding our understanding of these historical events. In addition to the experiences of the narrators, the fate of their family members, friends, colleagues and entire communities who were all impacted by these events are also illuminated in these accounts. The two memoirs by George Pogany (b. 1928) cover his life since the early 1930s in Hungary, the Holocaust, communism, his escape to the West in 1956, his settlement in England, resettlement in Holland and his years as an international management consultant in several countries. Few memoirs transmit so vigorously the sweep, resiliency, and duration of the author's life and reflections as in Pogany's exceptionally detailed and insightful twofold memoir.

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The personal experiences of individuals who lived through the catastrophes of World War II, the Holocaust and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution have been told in many recent memoirs, greatly expanding our understanding of these historical events
Dr Biro received two certificates on Holocaust Studies from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, where she conducted research in the Department of the Righteous among the Nations and authored a paper on Raoul Wallenberg that is presently posted on the Yad Vashem Website
The two memoirs under review here, both written by Hungarian-born George Pogany, take the reader on a journey from Pogany's birth in 1928, life in the 1930s in Orosháza in southeastern Hungary, to the nearby ghetto and on to the Strasshof socalled family labor camp in Austria, where together with his parents he spent ten months during the maelstrom of World War II and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews

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The personal experiences of individuals who lived through the catastrophes of World War II, the Holocaust and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution have been told in many recent memoirs, greatly expanding our understanding of these historical events. 1928) cover his life since the early 1930s in Hungary, the Holocaust, communism, his escape to the West in 1956, his settlement in England, resettlement in Holland and his years as an international management consultant in several countries.

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