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...fictional memoir," a warning that the events of real life have been rearranged, Battlefields rings clear and true. It is worth noting that what is most memorable in Nyiri's account is not the war's horrors or the coldhearted hypocrisy of the "Jewish laws" enforced by authorities in Budapest to appease the Germans and deal with the "Jewish question." It is the unsinkable humanity of his characters. Most of them aren't especially noble or heroic, but they are full of life, an important quality in a time of extermination...
...Jozska--surely to some degree modeled after the author as a child in wartime Budapest--is a rowdy, unscholarly wise guy more interested in cutting class to play soccer than in learning Hebrew like a proper Jewish son. But as he races about the city, often daring the devil by leaving off his yellow star, he sees clearly that two kinds of disintegration are occurring. And that one of them, the falling apart of German military strength, will not happen soon enough to prevent the second, the collapse of Hungarian civic morality, from grinding to completion...
Sitting in his office in University Hall wearing a deep blue shirt and a yellow tie depicting a beach scene, Wolcowitz is surrounded by pictures on the walls of his voyages to such locations as Israel, Shanghai, Budapest and Portugal. He has new ones of Africa and Turkey that he would hang if he could find the time...
...photo of the unmarked wooden crosses in the northern tundra reminded me of my youth. In 1945, my physician father and I were taken by the Soviet NKVD (more recently the KGB) from our home in Budapest, Hungary, and, though innocent, accused of espionage. (After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the charges were dropped.) We were shipped to the labor camps (Gulag) of the dreaded Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where I spent eight years between life and death. At one point, I weighed 85 lbs., and only a miracle saved me from joining those wooden crosses. My father...
Salt Lake City willhost the 2002 Winter Olympics. While boosters watched on a giant screen back home, delegates from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...