Research Catalog

Title

Child of war / by Nachman Seltzer, as told by Arye Leibish Friedman.

Author

Seltzer, Nachman

Publication

Brooklyn, NY : Mesorah Publications, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Friedman, Arye Leibish, 1936-

Description

267 p. : ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

Memoirs of Friedman, born in 1936 in Budapest, whose hasidic family survived in and around his native city, thanks to their luck or Divine providence, and their abilities - including his father's skillful forging of fake documents, the daring of his young aunts, and the acting ability of his mother and himself. Friedman, his mother, and baby brother survived posing as non-Jews in Buda, while most of the city's Jews were in danger in Pest. He pretended to be mentally ill due to the absence of a father serving in the Hungarian army, while his father was actually sheltered in the "glass house". Includes a brief account of how one aunt escaped on the Kasztner train. One sister was hidden in a convent until the Jewish children were found by the Gestapo, but she was saved by the ingenuity of her aunt Irene. Another sister was hidden in the countryside, discovered by the fascists, and rescued by her Aunt Edith. One relative survived by pretending to be a Gypsy violinist; another found refuge in a mental hospital. Friedman's grandmother escaped from a death march. Relates some of the horrors of life under the Arrow Cross, and the difficulty of remaining alive until the Russians liberated the city.

Uniform Title

ArtScroll history series

Subject

• Friedman, Arye Leibish
• 1939-1945
• Jewish children in the Holocaust > Hungary > Budapest
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Hungary > Budapest > Personal narratives
• Jews > Persecutions > Hungary > Budapest

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Personal narratives

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 858886098
• SCSB-12871047

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library