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Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON
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Ferenc Laczó, contributor to How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, will join Livia Prince and Judith Szapor in a panel discussion on the Holocaust in Hungary. The event is hosted by The Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and is part of the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies Lecture series.
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. Writing immediately after the war and examining only those critical months of 1944 when Hitler's Germany occupied its ally Hungary, Ernő Munkácsi describes the Judenrat's desperation and fear as it attempted to prevent the looming catastrophe, agonized over decisions not made, and struggled to grasp the immensity of a tragedy that would take the lives of 427,000 Hungarian Jews in the very last year of the Second World War.