by Connie Connally | Oct 13, 2011 | History
Here is a story from Béla Zsolt’s holocaust memoir, Nine Suitcases. It is a striking account of some Jewish prisoners who were given a chance to escape . . . and chose not to. The story, for me, is a poignant reminder that some things can be stronger than the fear of... by Connie Connally | Jun 4, 2011 | History
There are certain faces that we think of as representing great, powerful evil: Hitler, Stalin, and bin Laden to name a famous few. But the big names, the ones in the famous photos, have their ugly little brothers, too. (And sisters, I should add.) These lesser ones... by Connie Connally | Apr 26, 2011 | History
This book is a very vivid and candid memoir of the war years by a secular Hungarian Jew. Zsolt wrote for the liberal press before the war and was strongly opposed to fascism in all its forms. He paid for this and for his Jewish heritage during the anti-Semitic... by Connie Connally | Apr 19, 2011 | History
For the last five years I have been doing historical research, centering on Hungary during World War II and into the 1950’s, for some novels I’ve been writing. One of my novels is set in Budapest in 1944-45 at the terrible culmination of the war there. The other...