The Holocaust in Hungary

by Randolph L. Braham (Editor), Attila Pók (Editor)

This comprehensive look at the Holocaust in Hungary synthesizes the results of a wide range of investigations and evaluates the historical lessons of the Holocaust in one country. Part I contains historical overviews and introductions, Part II discusses historical antecedents in nine studies on historical, political-ideological, cultural, socioeconomic, and psychological factors that led to the destruction of Hungarian Jewry. Part III, on the Holocaust era itself, is comprised of twelve studies on the machinery of destruction. Part IV includes fifteen essays on the consequences of the Holocaust and on Jewish life in Hungary after the war.

800 pages, Hardcover

Published April 15, 1997

About the author

A political scientist and Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed at Auschwitz, Dr. Braham came to the United States in 1948. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and government and a master’s in education from City College. He received a doctorate in political science from the New School for Social Research. He was a professor at the City University of New York, where he founded the Graduate Center’s Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. He was an expert on the Holocaust in Hungary and was best known for The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary.