The forgotten massacre : : Budapest in 1944 / / Andrea Pető.

• VerfasserIn: Pető, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, Germany ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 189 p.)

The book discusses a formerly unknown and invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944, committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Andrea Pető uncovers the gripping history of the fi rst private Holocaust memorial erected in Budapest in 1945. Based on court trials, interviews with survivors, perpe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Acronyms
• 1 Introduction
• 2 What makes Csengery 64 important?
• 3 The House
• 4 Piroska Dely in Budapest
• 5 Death and the Maiden
• 6 The Perpetrators
• 7 The Greed
• 8 Revenge and Forgiveness
• 9 The Survivors and the Surviving Memories
• 10 Conclusion
• References
• Archival Sources
• Appendix 1 The chronology of Piroska Dely's trial, its background and afterlife
• Appendix 2 The Chronology of the Szamocseta Case
• Appendix 3 The story of the Csengery Street massacre
• Appendix 4 Persilschein
• Appendix 5 Tenant registry
• Appendix 6 The text of the memory plaque
• Appendix 7 The victims of the Csengery Street massacre
• Appendix 8 Petition for the Csengery Street commemorative plaque
• Appendix 9 Interview with the son of Nándor Szamocseta
• Appendix 10 List of illustrations
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects