The Forgotten Massacre

Budapest in 1944

Andrea Pető author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:8th Mar '21

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The Forgotten Massacre cover

The book discusses a formerly unknown and invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944, committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Andrea Pető uncovers the gripping history of the fi rst private Holocaust memorial erected in Budapest in 1945. Based on court trials, interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and investigators, the book illustrates the complexities of gendered memory of violence. It examines the dramatic events: massacre, deportation, robbery, homecoming, and fi ght for memorialization from the point of view of the perpetrators and the survivors. The book will change the ways we look at intimate killings during the Second World-War.

ISBN: 9783110687484

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 414g

200 pages