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A Summer of Mass Murder - 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust (Paperback)
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A Summer of Mass Murder - 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust (Paperback)
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Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners
speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and
flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold
chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas
chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by
bullets. The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had
no precedent in the rapidly unfolding history of World War II and
the Holocaust. In six weeks, more than twenty thousand Hungarian
Jews were forcefully deported to Galicia and summarily executed. In
exploring the fate of these Hungarian Jews and their local
coreligionists, A Summer of Mass Murder transcends conventional
history by introducing a multitude of layers of politics, culture,
and, above all, psychology-for both the victims and the
executioners. The narrative presents an uncharted territory in
Holocaust scholarship with extensive archival research, interviews,
and corresponding literature across countries and languages,
incorporating many previously unexplored documents and testimonies.
Eisen reflects upon the voices of the victims, the images of the
perpetrators, whose motivation for murder remains inexplicable. In
addition, the author incorporates the long-forgotten testimonies of
bystander contemporaries, who unwittingly became part of the
unfolding nightmare and recorded the horror in simple words. This
book also serves as a personal journey of discovery. Among the
twenty thousand people killed was the tale of two brothers, the
author's uncles. In retracing their final fate and how they were
swept up in the looming genocide, A Summer of Mass Murder also
gives voice to their story.
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