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Author Polcz, Alaine

Title One Woman in the War Hungary 1944-1945 Alaine Polcz
Published Budapest Central European University Press 2013

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Description 1 online resource (162 pages)
Contents The honeymoon -- A refugee's idyll -- The front -- Peace
Summary Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. The autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of the Second World War. When it was first published, in 1991, the book was a revelation of past horrors in Hungary which, until then, had lingered on in the farthest reaches of the national memory as rumor and suspicion about the violent acts committed against women during a time of chaos, havoc, and savagery. The literary world quickly recognized the merits of this book: It was highly praised by Hungarian reviewers, awarded prizes, and has already been translated into French, Rumanian, Slovenian, and Serbian. "A woman's life at the front. Hunger, lice, digging trenches, peeling potatoes, cold, filth. This life was not only mine. My husband's white-haired mother was dragged away and raped as pubescent girls were. Russian soldiers attacked me, beat me, protected me, stepped on my hand with a boot, fed me
Subject Polcz, Alaine
SUBJECT Polcz, Alaine fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Hungarian
World War, 1939-1945 -- Hungary
Refugees -- Hungary
World War, 1939-1945 -- Hungary -- Personal narratives, Hungarian
Refugees.
refugees.
HISTORY / Military / World War II
Refugees
History & Archaeology.
History - General.
Hungary
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002007931
ISBN 9789633860052
9633860059
2821815271
9782821815278