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My Journey Home

Life After the Holocaust
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019

About this book

This poignant story of survival, friendship, and love begins with the the author’s childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary. It captures life after the war’s end in Communist-ruled Hungary and continues with her and her husband’s flight to Germany and eventually the United States.

Author / Editor information

Zsuzsanna Ozsváth is Professor of Literary Studies and the History of Ideas and Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has published a number of books and articles in literary studies and on the Holocaust. She also studies and teaches the conflicts arising between the Holocaust and our notions of art, beauty, and morality.

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“A sequel to her masterful memoir When the Danube Ran Red, Zsuzsanna Ozsváth’s My Journey Home is a beautifully crafted love story brilliantly interwoven with the high drama of post-Holocaust history. Like fellow travelers, we join Zsuzsi and Pista on their journey from the horror of the Nazis to the terror of the Communists, then through Germany and on to America. We are enthralled by her art, as each page brims with poetry and pathos. My Journey Home is truly a literary masterpiece of the highest order.” —David Patterson, Hillel A. Fevinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas

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    Frontmatter

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    Acknowledgements

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    Contents

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    Foreword

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    1. Spring Meeting

    1
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    2. Promise of the Night

    8
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    3. Encountering Pista

    11
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    4. In the Garden

    18
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    5. The First Visit

    22
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    6. The Rise of Terror

    24
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    7. Fear

    31
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    8. Hunger

    33
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    9. The Wedding

    36
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    10. Shadows and Light

    39
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    11. The Railed Cot

    43
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    12. Quiet Happiness

    45
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    13. Under Terror

    47
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    14. Living for the Moment

    56
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    15. Playmates

    61
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    16. Dangerous Winds

    67
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    17. Deportations

    71
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    18. A Decision

    73
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    19. Voyage to the East

    76
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    20. New Circumstances

    79
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    21. Across the Border

    88
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    22. New Life

    90
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    23. Waiting for a Miracle

    93
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    24. Hamburg

    98
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    25. First Steps

    100
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    26. Crisis

    108
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    27. Major Changes

    117
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    28. New Life

    119
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    29. A Terrible Event

    124
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    30. Becoming Parents

    126
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    31. Pleasure and Grief

    128
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    32. At Home

    133
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    33. Teaching and Fulfillment

    142
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    34. Past and Present

    146
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    35. Threats

    149
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    36. The Crush of the World

    151
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    37. Life with and without Pista

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    Index

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 23, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781618119025
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
178
Illustrations:
13
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618119025
eBook ISBN: 9781618119025
Keywords for this book
post-Holocaust history; Jewish Literature; Post-WWII Hungary; Soviet Occupation; Flight to Germany; Immigrant; Diaspora; Exile; European; Hungarian National Socialists; Mathematician; Budapest; World War 2; Two; memoir; survival memoir; Auschwitz; When the Danube Ran Red
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General/trade;
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