This book, first published in 1966, focuses on the stories of ordinary people who have stood up to tyrants around the world. A German opposes Hitler; a Rabbi in South Africa protests apartheid; an Algerian lawyer remains true to the law; a Polish writer fights the Nazis, and the Communists; an Irish playwright is caught up in the fight against the British; and a Hungarian Jewish poet recites poetry in concentration camps. Together they form an examination of political opposition, and a testimony.

This book, first published in 1966, focuses on the stories of ordinary people who have stood up to tyrants around the world. A German opposes Hitler; a Rabbi in South Africa protests apartheid; an Algerian lawyer remains true to the law; a Polish writer fights the Nazis, and the Communists; an Irish playwright is caught up in the fight against the British; and a Hungarian Jewish poet recites poetry in concentration camps. Together they form an examination of political opposition, and a testimony.

In Night of the Mist, Eugene Heimler gave a moving and gripping account of his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. In this book, A Link in the Chain, he describes his eventful return journey from Auschwitz to his home in Hungary and how he reshaped his life since the end of the war. Heimler tells his stories poetically and vividly: He travels towards home on a buffer of a train, next to a German SS man who could easily push him off; He witnesses the rape of Kati, his travel companion by Russian brutes, with their machine guns aimed at him; Returning to Hungary, at the age of 23, he soon realizes that as a Jew he is still not wanted in his native country. The Red Army occupies Hungary and makes attempts on his life; He works as a journalist in the Social Democratic Headquarters and is arrested and charged with treason for an article he wrote; shots are aimed at him. When the Right Wing Smallholders win the Hungarian election in 1945, he contemplates leaving Hungary. An invitation to spy for the Communists in return for getting his poems published gets him into a momentary trap, but he outwits "Uncle Zoltan," his conspirator who unwittingly provides him with the Russian exit visa he still needs in order to go to London 'for a short visit'. In 1947 he travels to England. His newly married wife, Lily, follows him later. When in 1949 the Secret Police tortures his friends in Budapest, Heimler breaks down, as now all hope is lost for ever returning to his native homeland. His trials in England are manifold. Without speaking English, the couple lives on fear and tears. When Heimler arrived in England he was, mentally, still a very sick man. He describes the psychoanalytic treatment which he underwent at that time. After years of hardship and struggle he qualifies as a psychiatric social worker in 1953. He becomes County Psychiatric Social Work Organizer for the Middlesex County Council, and his experimental work made him one of the pioneers of 'community mental health' in England. His interviews with patients in pubs and parks have been the subject of much controversy. Heimler goes on to show not only how he affects his patients but also how they affect him, and how he grows through and with them. His account, in the latter part of the book, of the 'Hendon Experiment', in which he works hand in hand with the National Assistance Board in an attempt to solve the problem of the 'work-shy', and of his experiment in mental health with a General Practitioner, will be of particular interest to doctors, social workers and all who are concerned with the care of the mentally ill.

When the Germans invaded Hungary in 1944, Eugene Heimler was twenty-one. His father, a socialist as well as a Jew, was arrested by the Gestapo and never seen again. Mr. Heimler and his new wife were taken from a Hungarian ghetto and deported in a cattle truck to Auschwitz. His wife and family died there, but he survived to be taken to Buchenwald and other camps in Germany. At the end of the European war, he escaped and found his way back to his native country. NIGHT OF THE MIST is an account of a young man's experience under the Gestapo. It records the day-to-day events, the miserable conditions of existence, the physical suffering endured by the prisoners. But Eugene Heimler goes beyond a factual record of events. With a gifted insight he describes the deeper effects of suffering - on their minds. He writes not only of himself but of many others imprisoned with him: of the doctor and the architect, no longer middle-class gentlemen of authority, but near animals; of the girl, once gentle and intelligent, now offering her diseased body for a crust of bread; of the man who spent twelve years in prison for the murder of his wife, and who in the inferno of a concentration camp found meaning in life. Yet, though he knew the worst of humanity, Heimler was able to regain his faith in God and in the dignity of man. He does not hate; and the horror of his experience is transcended by his compassion and deep understanding of spiritual values. The true message of his book is not one of horror, but of hope.

BEI NACHT UND NEBEL ist ein Bericht der Erlebnisse eines jungen Mannes wahrend des Naziregimes. Es erzahlt von den tagtaglichen Geschehnissen, den schrecklichen Existenzbedingungen und den korperlichen Leiden, welche die Gefangenen ertragen mussten. Aber Heimler bewegt sich jenseits der faktischen Geschehnisse. Mit begabter Einsicht beschreibt er die tieferen Wirkungen der Leiden auf die Seele. Er schreibt nicht nur von sich selbst, sondern uber viele seiner Mitgefangenen; - von dem Arzt und dem Architekten, nicht langer Gentlemen der mittleren Gesellschaftsklasse mit Autoritat, sondern wilden Tieren ahnlich; er schreibt von dem Madchen, das einst sanft und intelligent war und jetzt seinen todgeweihten Korper fur eine Krume Brot anbietet; von dem Mann, der zwolf Jahre fur den Mord an seiner Frau im Gefangnis zugebracht hatte und nun im Inferno des Konzentrationslagers eine Bedeutung in seinem Leben findet. Obwohl er das Schlimmste an Unmenschlichkeit kannte, war Eugene Heimler in der Lage, seinen Glauben an Gott und an die Wurde des Menschen wiederzugewinnen. Er hasst nicht; sein Mitfuhlen und sein tiefes Verstandnis spiritueller Werte halfen ihm, das Grauen seiner Erlebnisse zu uberwinden. Seine Botschaft kundet nicht von Horror, sondern von Hoffnung. EUGENE HEIMLER wurde am 27. Marz 1922 in Szombathely, Ungarn, geboren. 21jahrig wurde er nach Auschwitz und Buchenwald deportiert. Er uberlebte die Todeslager. Seine Frau Eva, sein Vater Erno und seine Schwester Zsuzsi mit ihrem Sohn Gabi wurden in Auschwitz ermordet. 1947 kam Heimler nach England und begann Bei Nacht und Nebel zu schreiben. 20 Jahre hatte er einen Lehrstuhl an der Londoner Universitat sowie mehrere Lehrstuhle in den USA und in Kanada und entwickelte seine eigene sozial-integrative Methode: Heimler Methode," die er in Grossbritanien, den USA und in Deutschland lehrte und mit der er Tausenden von Menschen half. Eugene Heimler starb am 4. Dezember 1990 in London."

In seinem fesselnden, poetischen Stil nimmt der Autor Sie mit sich auf eine lebens-transformierende Reise durch Meere inspirationeller Bildnisse und Strome von Tranen; von Schmerzenssturmen zu Gewassern individueller und allgemeingultiger Weisheit und in die Tiefen seines Selbsts und des Ihren. Seine universalen und autobiographischen Geschichten fliessen und mischen dynamisch -wie die lebhaften Farben auf der Leinwand eines Wasserfarben-Kunstlers - Zeitdimensionen in ein sich ausdehnendes, zusammenhaltendes Ganzes. Die Mannigfaltigkeit von Genre, Zeit und Metapher ist erregend und offenbart vielfache Schichten unserer physischen, emotionalen und spirituellen Realitat. Der Autor uberschreitet Zeit indem er Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft zu einem Wandteppich tiefer Bedeutung und Leidenschaft knupft, - mit Blut befleckt und mit Freudentranen gezeichnet. In Botschaften reisen wir mit dem Autor durch dasVerlieren, Suchen und Wiederfinden seiner eigenen Identitat und seines Platzes in der physischen, emotionalen und spirituellen Welt. In seiner Stromung von Bewusstseins-Reflexionen uberschreitet Heimler Zeit von biblischen durch mittelalterliche zu modernen menschlich transformativen Erlebnissen, - durch Schmerz zu Selbst-Entdeckung. Diese kunstvoll vertraute Verflechtung personlicher und universaler Themen zieht den Leser in Heimlers Ehrfurcht einflossende viel-schichtige Welt mutiger Introspektion. Botschaften illuminiert den inneren Kampf des Autors - des Holocaust Uberlebenden - Bedeutung, Sinn und Leidenschaft von seinem einmal zerrutteten Leben wiederzuentdecken. Seine Kampfe fuhren ihn zu existenziellen Fragen uber die Bedeutung des Lebens: Was ist die Verbindung zwischen Leben und was wir Tod nennen?' Wie kann Sinnhaftigkeit Schmerz uberwinden?' Wie konnen wir Frieden finden, wenn wir unsere schlimmsten Stunden verleugnen?' Wie konnen wir all den Hass verstehen, der uns umgibt?' Wie kann Hass in Kreativitat anstatt Selbstvernichtung verwandelt werden?' Was kann unsere Liebe und unsere Fahigkeit zu lieben inmitten von Grausamkeiten oder Gleichgultigkeit am Leben halten?' Folgen Sie diesem bemerkenswerten Mann in seiner Suche nach ewiger Weishe