This is a first-person account of growing up in Hungary under Nazism and Communism. Beginning in Hungary in the 1940s and ending up more than a decade later in America. The narrative tells of a Jewish boy's daily life under extraordinary circumstances. Kenez relates details of day-to-day existence during wartime, the post-war period, and the 1956 rebellion. The juxtaposition of daily routine and extraordinary events provides a view of history, humankind's survival instinct, and the effects of growing up in a national atmosphere of uncertainty, distrust and fear.
- ISBN10 1879383292
- ISBN13 9781879383296
- Publish Date 10 January 1995 (first published 27 December 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English