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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
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