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Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON
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Join Nina Munk for the Toronto launch of How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
SPEAKERS
Nina Munk, Editor, Canadian-American Journalist and Author
Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose, and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of History, University of Toronto
DISCUSSANT
Randall Hansen, Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to the senseless brutality that, in a matter of months, decimated what was Europe’s largest and last-surviving Jewish community.
This long-overdue translation makes available Munkácsi's profound and unparalleled insight into the Holocaust in Hungary, revealing the "choiceless choices" that confronted members of the Judenrat forced to execute the Nazis' orders. With an in-depth introduction, a brief biography of Erno Munkácsi, ample annotations by László Csosz and Ferenc Laczó, two dozen archival photographs, and detailed maps, How It Happened is an essential resource for historians and students of the Holocaust, the Second World War, and Central Europe.
"How It Happened succeeds both as a riveting, personal account of the days leading up to the Holocaust in Hungary and as a scholarly work that sheds new light on the tragedy of Hungarian Jewry. A valuable addition to Holocaust literature, this is a very readable story drawn from the pages of a catastrophe we are still unable to fully comprehend." Anna Porter, author of Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust