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My Destiny: Survivor of the Holocaust
319 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1981
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June 6, 2020
What an incredible life this woman had! Her incredible cunning, intelligence, and bravery are evident in her ability to survive the Holocaust, escape Communism, and eventually thrive in the USA.
Her personal account of the insidious nature of the Anti-Semitism that lead up to the Holocaust in Hungary makes you think.
This passage haunts me:
“One day a family friend came to say goodbye. He had, through the Hungarian Zionist federation, found the opportunity to go to Palestine, and he was leaving with his family. He proposed we do the same.
My father, although a highly knowledgeable and brilliant man, responded, “We don’t need to take such chances. Hungarians would NEVER tolerate the mass torture and murder of Jews, like the Germans and Poles have allowed in their ghettos and concentration camps! The stories we hear about German-occupies lands could never happen here. Our Jews are assimilated. Prominent in all segments of society. Such things couldn’t happen to US!””
Her personal account of the insidious nature of the Anti-Semitism that lead up to the Holocaust in Hungary makes you think.
This passage haunts me:
“One day a family friend came to say goodbye. He had, through the Hungarian Zionist federation, found the opportunity to go to Palestine, and he was leaving with his family. He proposed we do the same.
My father, although a highly knowledgeable and brilliant man, responded, “We don’t need to take such chances. Hungarians would NEVER tolerate the mass torture and murder of Jews, like the Germans and Poles have allowed in their ghettos and concentration camps! The stories we hear about German-occupies lands could never happen here. Our Jews are assimilated. Prominent in all segments of society. Such things couldn’t happen to US!””
March 14, 2017
While most survivor stories of this time are about people who were actually in the concentration camps or spent their time hiding; this one is more of how she avoided getting arrested. I was very disappointed in this and won't read again
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