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Remembering Resistance

A Jewish Memoir from Nazi-Occupied Budapest, 1944-45
Buch | Hardcover
374 Seiten
2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-813-4 (ISBN)
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An illuminating chronicle of the life and work of Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, liberating oppressed Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest, Remembering Resistance offers an unrivalled insight into a family’s personal history of resistance and provides a paradigm for mediating our methods of remembrance.
The existence and achievements of Jewish “self-rescuers” within Nazi-occupied Hungary remains, in spite of their significance, historically underexplored. In this illuminating chronicle of the life and work of Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, Remembering Resistance seeks to address this lacunae, offering an unique insight into a family’s personal history of resistance under the Nazi regime. Combining oral testimony from fellow survivors, with a previously-unpublished translation of László’s memoir, this book foregrounds the remarkable work of the Szamosis and their network, in rescuing Jews from the Death Marches and reuniting displaced families. Through doing so, this book offers a powerful framework for mediating how we remember Jewish experiences of the Holocaust.

Asa Eger is the grandson of Eugenia and László Szamosi and a Professor of the Islamic World at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Focusing on the intersection of archaeology and history he specializes in Anatolia and Syria-Palestine from the Byzantine period through to the twelfth century. His recent publications include; The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers (University Press of Colorado, 2019) and Antioch: A History (Routledge, 2021).

List of Illustrations and Documents

Editors’ Note



Preface: The Life and Legacy of My Grandparents

Asa Eger



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Shared Experiences, Divided Memories: Diplomats and Jewish Rescuers in Budapest, 1944–1945

Kinga Frojimovics and Éva Kovács



Part I: The Hungary Years, 1942–1949



Chapter 1. Budapest, 1944–1945: A Memoir by László Szamosi

Chapter 2. Documents during the War, 1942–1945

Chapter 3. The Safe Houses of Budapest Where the Szamosis Lived

Chapter 4. Documents after the War, 1945–1949

Chapter 5. Houses after the War, 1944–1949



Part II: The Komoly Years, 1950s to 1980s



Chapter 6. Komoly Memorial Lecture at Bet Hahalutzot, Haifa (1952)

Chapter 7. The Yad Vashem Correspondence, Part One (1958)

Chapter 8. Komoly Memorial Lecture at Beitenu, Haifa (1975)



Part III: The Wallenberg Years, 1981–1986



Chapter 9. László Szamosi and John Bierman’s Righteous Gentile (1981, 1982)

Chapter 10. Szamosi as a Promoter for Wallenberg’s Rise to Fame (1981–1986)

Chapter 11. Organizing the First World Congress on Hungarian Jews (1982–1984)

Chapter 12. Forty Years After… László Szamosi’s Speech in Beer Sheva (1984)

Chapter 13. Honoring László Szamosi upon His Death (1986)



Part IV: The Perlasca Years, Part One: 1986–1992



Chapter 14. The Yad Vashem Correspondence, Part Two (1989–1990)

Chapter 15. The World-Famous “Perlasca Circus” by Eugenia Szamosi

Chapter 16. The Oral History of Eugenia Szamosi, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Correspondence, Part One (1990)

Chapter 17. Bözsi’s Last Battle: Fighting Back with the Media



Part V: The Perlasca Years, Part Two: 1998–2023



Chapter 18. The Temple Emanu-El Panel (1998)

Chapter 19. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Correspondence, Part Two (2013–2015) and Arcadi Espada’s L’autentica impostura (2013–2021)



Epilogue



Appendix I: List of Jews Rescued with Szamosi’s Involvement

Appendix II: Szamosi Family Tree



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2026
Zusatzinfo Bibliography; Index; 135 Illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-80539-813-X / 180539813X
ISBN-13 978-1-80539-813-4 / 9781805398134
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