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Wallenberg: Missing Hero
by
Kati Marton
January 17, 1995, marks the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, one of the greatest heroes of the Holocaust. Here is an authoritative account of Wallenberg's days in Budapest, his mysterious disappearance into Soviet prisons, and the most detailed account available of how he saved over 100,000 Jews from Nazi death camps. 8-page photo insert.
Paperback, 251 pages
Published
January 17th 1995
by Arcade Publishing
(first published 1982)
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In 1944, as the war was winding down in Europe, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swede, was sent to Budapest Hungary to do what he could to save the lives of the Jews living in that city. He is credited with saving 100,000 Jews from the Nazi gas chamber, forced marches, and brutal work camps. This is the story as told by Kati Marton who is a daughter of a married couple who were saved by Wallenberg. When Russia captured Budapest from the Nazis, Wallenberg was arrested as a spy and sent to various Gulags i...more
My wife and I were in Budapest some years ago and I read Kati Marton's book while living where Wallenberg had been. We stayed in an old building on the street where roundups had occurred, perhaps even from our apartment. We stood alone at the Wallenberg memorial on the outskirts of the city and felt his presence. How angry we were at the Russians who took this hero from a world which had great need of such men, then and now. Marton has written a magnificent account of what is known and what is l...more
Provides at once great hope and great despair in the human condition and capability. This book confirms "the ineffable courage of a man who did not bend before the murderous machinery of not one but two of the century's most brutal totalitarian orders."
I really like Kati Marton's writing style. The book was very well done. the author's connection to Hungary and its figures is evident. Great read!
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Kati Marton is an American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio as well as print journalism and writing a number of books. - Wikipedia.
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