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Shoes Along the Danube
Shoes Along the Danube refers to the memorial of cast iron shoes that honor Hungarian Holocaust victims. Based on a true story, this amazing book follows the lives of two extended Hungarian families, the R zlers and the F ldes, one gentile and the other Jewish, through three decades.-----The story begins in pre-World War II Budapest, as increasing fascism and anti-Semitism lead Hungary to become an ally of Germany. In 1944, Germany invades Hungary to exterminate Europe's last remaining group of Jews at the infamous Auschwitz death camp. The story builds through the siege of Budapest, the Russian occupation of Hungary, and separation by exile.-----Julius R zler is a rising star among Budapest...
Starina 1/2014
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Rescue of the Budapest Jews
Everyone knows about the efforts of diplomats like Carl Lutz and Raoul Wallenberg in saving the Jews of Budapest after the Germans occupied Hungary on March 19, 1944. Almost no one, however, knows that their undertaking would have been entirely impossible if the Jews had not first been saved from deportations by the Hungarian Regent Miklos Horthy. Deprived of real power by the occupation, the 77 year old Horthy found a loyal armored unit, took back partial power and forbade further deportations, thus preserving about a quarter of a million of Budapest's Jews to be cared for by the diplomats after he was overthrown.
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New Orleans After the Promises
In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on Poverty, and emerged with glittering skyscrapers, professional football, and a building so large it had to be called the Superdome. New Orleans after the Promises looks back at that era to explore how a few thousand locals tried to bring the Great Society to Dixie. With faith in God and American progress, they believed that they could conquer poverty, confront racism, establish civic order, and expand the economy. At a time when liberalism seemed to be on the wane nationally, black and white citizens in New Orleans cautiously partnered with each ot...
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