Miracle in the ashes
Memoirs of a Jew born in 1920 in Mezőtúr, eastern Hungary, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father died in the mid-1930s and the family (eight children) moved to Győr, where Lowinger became the main breadwinner. In 1940 he was dismissed from his job due to the Hungarian anti-Jewish laws and moved to Budapest. He attemped to rescue the families of two sisters and a brother who had settled in Slovakia by smuggling them back into Hungary, but he was arrested and tortured. In October 1942 he was drafted into a military labor service unit and sent to the Pűspőkladány camp, where he suffered many hardships. In 1943 he returned to Budapest, where he experienced the German occupation in 1944 and the Nyilas terror. He and his new wife were interned in the ghetto of Budapest, where he tried to help his fellow inmates, using bribes, personal connections, etc. Lowinger and his wife survived the ghetto; his mother and seven siblings (along with the spouses and children of those who were married) perished in the Holocaust. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, English, 1999
Targum Press, Southfield, MI, 1999