When the Danube Ran Red (Ostvath)

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This is a very short autobiographical account of how the author, as a young Hungarian girl, survived the Hungarian Shoah, due to constant help and care from a young Hungarian woman, Erzsi, briefly hired by the family pharmacy and promptly redeployed as the family nanny

Written sixty some years after the events described, and concentrating mainly on a period of only a few years, the author, now a Holocaust scholar, has carefully described the time as she experienced and understood it: On that night, we also left the lights on in the living room as well, even after we went to sleep. In case Pali returned, he would know from afar that we were at home, waiting for him. But he did not come