The Soul of Things

Memoir of a Youth Interrupted

von Éva Fahidi

304 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title Anima Rerum, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and in Germany. Featured in countless interviews and several prize-winning documentary films, at the age of ninety-five she is a frequent speaker at Holocaust commemorations in Hungary, Germany, and elsewhere. The Soul of Things combines a rare depiction of upper-middle-class Jewish life in pre-war Hungary with the chronicle of a woman’s deportation and survival in the camps. Fahidi is a gifted writer with a unique voice, full of wisdom, humanity, and flashes of dark humour. With an unsentimental, philosophical perspective, she recounts her journey from the Great Hungarian Plain to the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the forced labour camp of Münchmühle, and back. The English edition includes a new introduction by historians Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor, the original prefaces to the Hungarian and German editions, an essay on the Münchmüle Camp by Fritz Brinkman-Frisch, and extensive notes providing historical and cultural context for Fahidi’s narrative.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Genozide und ethnische Säuberung Holocaust
• ISBN: 9781487507442
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2020
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Herausgegeben von: Judith Szapor