Nine Suitcases
Author(s): Bela Zsolt
Nine Suitcases was originally published in Haladas in weekly instalments. The first instalment appeared on 30 May 1946, and the last on 27 February 1947. Concentrating on his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine, Zsolt provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice and betrayal of which human beings
General Information
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- : vinteb
- : vinteb
- : 0.276
- : 07 April 2005
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Bela Zsolt
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 940.5318092
- : 288
More About The Product
Bela Zsolt was one of Hungary's best-known writers in the early twentieth century. Born in 1895, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918 and in a Hungarian-Jewish forced-labour unit in 1942-1943. In 1944, after a spell in a Hungarian ghetto and a German concentration camp, he found refuge in Switzerland. In 1945 he returned to Hungary and in 1947 became an anti-communist member of parliament. He died in 1949. Ladislaus Lob was born in Transylvania. He is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex.
