Kilenc koffer
Memoirs of Zsolt (1895-1949), a Hungarian Jewish writer and journalist who lived with his wife, Ágnes, in Budapest. In summer 1942 he was drafted into a military labor service unit and sent to Ukraine. Thanks to efforts of his wife and some influential friends, he was allowed to return to Budapest in late 1943, but was imprisoned for several months. In January 1944 he and his wife travelled to see her parents and her daughter in Nagyvárad, where they were interned in the ghetto. The couple managed to escape and return to Budapest, but her parents and her 13-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, Éva Heyman, were deported and killed, as were Zsolt's parents and siblings. The memoirs (originally published in serial form in 1946-47 in Zsolt's journal, "Haladás") end at this point. On 30 June 1944 Zsolt and his wife left Budapest on the "Kasztner train", were interned in Bergen-Belsen, and reached Switzerland in December 1944. After the war they returned to Hungary, where Zsolt became active again but refused to to the Communist Party line. He died in a sanatorium in 1949; his wife committed suicide in 1948, after publishing her daughter's diary. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Tištěná kniha, Hungarian, 1980
Magvető, Budapest, 1980