Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sofia decisions, the government announced that Mindszenty was being held incommunicado on suspicion of "treason, attempting to overthrow the democratic regime, espionage and foreign currency abuses." The Communists gave out a long list of incriminating documents said to have been found in "a metal box buried in a cellar in the cardinal's palace...
This charge was a typical Communist distortion. Truth was that one day in 1944, Hungary's Nazi dictator Ferenc Sza-lasi had decided to set up headquarters in the bishop's palace. Mindszenty, who was sheltering about 100 Jews in his cellar at the time, declared that so long as he was bishop, none of Szalasi's men would enter. The Nazis promptly occupied the palace. The police found a sizable store of clothes which Mindszenty had quietly collected for Hungary's persecuted and pillaged Jewry. The clothes included underwear which Szalasi had wanted...
Except for about 30 pieces (including an Epstein bust and a sprinkling of Pre-Raphaelites), the Tate has resolutely packed them off to the cellar. That, says the gallery's pastel-shirted Director John Rothenstein, is where they belong...
...hours George and Anastasios fought off repeated attacks from the windows. George's wife begged him to leave while it was still possible to escape by the side cellar door and through the fields to town. George refused, but insisted that his wife go, taking the daughters with...
...family escaped, but during a lull in the firing, while Anastasios was bolting the cellar door after them, guerrillas managed to dash up to the front door with a small charge, and blow it in. For two hours or more George and his son fought on, first at the staircase leading to the second floor, then at the landing of the attic. Finally they were forced up onto the roof...