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Author Laufer, Gabriel, author

Title A survivor's duty : surviving the Holocaust and fighting for Israel : a story of father and son / Gabriel Laufer
Published Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2018

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Series The Holocaust: history and literature, ethics and philosophy
Holocaust (Boston, Mass.)
Contents June 1942: Imprisoned in the tolonchaz -- July 1942: Budapest -- August 1942: Leaving Gyula -- August 1942: Puspokladany, Hungary -- September 1942: Gomel, Ukraine -- September-October 1942: When man becomes a horse -- October-December 1942: Stary Oskol -- May 1967: Dark clouds over Israel -- May-June 1967: The Six-Day War -- Summer 1967: Messianic days (or so we thought) -- January 1943: Near Stalingrad -- 1968-1970: The War of Attrition -- October 1973: The Yom Kippur War -- November 1944-May 1945: Dachau and Muhldorf, Germany -- May 1945: Liberation 268 -- July 1945: Home at last -- 1945-1949: Budapest -- July-August 1949: Escape from Hungary -- June 1982: A war of deception
Summary "This book is the author's attempt and duty to, in the words of Elie Wiesel, "Bear witness for the dead and for the living". Through extensive research in archives, family documents, and literature, Laufer unearthed his father's lost biography as a slave in the Hungarian forced labor battalions and in German concentration camps, his return to Hungary, and his daring escape from Stalinist Hungary to Israel. Laufer's father's experiences mark one of the saddest points in Jewish history and the story is contrasted with his own in Israel during the Six Days war, a pinnacle in Jewish history and during the Israeli wars that followed"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Budapest
Holocaust
Hungary
Israel
Six Day War
family history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Laufer, Gabriel
Children of Holocaust survivors -- Israel -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Budapest -- Personal narratives
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Children of Holocaust survivors
Ethnic relations
1939-1945.
SUBJECT Budapest (Hungary) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Hungary -- Budapest
Israel
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies
Personal narratives
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018007530
ISBN 9781618117847
161811784X