Lisa Lieberman's Blog - Posts Tagged "holocaust"

Desecrated synagogue in Mád, Hungary. A key scene of Burning Cold is set here.

Cara and Gray venture into Budapest during the 1956 revolution in search of their half-brother Zoltán, the forgotten son of their father’s first marriage. They track him to Mád, a small town in the Tokaj wine region on Hungary’s eastern border, a place I chose simply because of the potential for wordplay. Then I learned the fate of Mád’s once-thriving Jewish community.

Some three hundred men, women, and children were locked in the town’s synagogue when the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, deprived of food and water for three days, then herded into cattle cars with the help of the Arrow Cross (Hungarian militia). Most perished in Auschwitz.

–From "Travels with Cara," Mystery Scene magazine


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