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Burning Horses : A Hungarian Life Turned Upside Down by Agatha Hoff (2010, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSweet Earth Flying Press LLC

ISBN-100979098718

ISBN-139780979098710

eBay Product ID (ePID)79214894

Product Key Features

Book TitleBurning Horses : a Hungarian Life Turned Upside Down

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Biographical, Historical

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAgatha Hoff

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-479956

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"In this powerful imagining of her mother's autobiography, Agatha Hoff explores how the carefree world of pre-World War II Hungary was made to face the most awful realities of Nazi occupation and war." -Clifford Chanin, president, the Legacy Project, "Writing in a style and language faithful to her mother's voice, Agatha has achieved a powerful piece, a testament to her mother's indomitable will to survive, and a lasting legacy to her Jewish-Catholic roots. This is a must read for all." -Sister Nancy Morris, RSJC, president emerita, San Diego College for Women

Dewey Decimal813.6

SynopsisThis fictionalized account of real-life occurrences chronicles one woman's amazing survival of the Hungarian Holocaust. Through the author's creative first-person telling of her mother's life--based on her mother's written and oral observations as well as the author's own childhood memories--a portrait of the remarkable Eva Leopold emerges. After spending an idyllic childhood on a pastoral estate in rural Hungary, Eva settled in Budapest where despite having been raised Catholic by parents who'd converted from Judaism and being married to a gentile, Eva was considered Jewish by the Nazi regime. Beginning in 1944--when exemptions for Jewish women married to gentiles were lifted--her daily life was dominated by desperate attempts to stay alive, avoid deportation to a death camp, and protect her family. Initially saved by taking shelter in the Papal Legation, Eva also hid in the air raid shelter in the basement of the family's apartment building, which disappeared when the building went up in flames, consuming the horses stabled on the first floor. Having been widowed, Eva remarried, and she and her new husband made a death-defying escape to Austria. At risk of losing their U.S. visas, Eva and her husband enrolled their daughters in a Catholic boarding school, and boarded a ship to New York where they awaited their daughters' arrival six months later. A touching epilogue, written by the daughter-author, is also included., This fictionalized account of real-life occurrences chronicles one woman s amazing survival of the Hungarian Holocaust. Through the author s creative first-person telling of her mother s lifebased on her mother s written and oral observations as well as the author s own childhood memoriesa portrait of the remarkable Eva Leopold emerges. After spending an idyllic childhood on a pastoral estate in rural Hungary, Eva settled in Budapest wheredespite having been raised Catholic by parents who'd converted from Judaism and being married to a gentile, Eva was considered Jewish by the Nazi regime. Beginning in 1944when exemptions for Jewish women married to gentiles were liftedher daily life was dominated by desperate attempts to stay alive, avoid deportation to a death camp, and protect her family. Initially saved by taking shelter in the Papal Legation, Eva also hid in the air raid shelter in the basement of the family s apartment building, which disappeared when the building went up in flames, consuming the horses stabled on the first floor. Having been widowed, Eva remarried, and she and her new husband made a death-defying escape to Austria. At risk of losing their U.S. visas, Eva and her husband enrolled their daughters in a Catholic boarding school, and boarded a ship to New York where they awaited their daughters' arrival six months later. A touchingepilogue, written by the daughter-author, is also included."

LC Classification NumberPS3608.O4768B87 2010