Reports from a distant place, Frank Shatz
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Reports from a distant place, Frank Shatz
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
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portraitsillustrations
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Reports from a distant place
Oclc number
789684442
Responsibility statement
Frank Shatz
Series statement
Local authors project
Summary
Anecdotes from the author's own experiences and of the people he encountered as a teenage fugitive during World War II, as a journalist during the communist era in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and as an immigrant in America. People mentioned include Raoul Wallenburg and Rezso Kasztner, Gabor Peterdi and his mother Zseni Varnay, Jan Masaryk, Yehudi Menuhin, Rudolph, Heda and Ivan Margolius, Count Michael Karolyi, Joseph Korbel, Archduke Otto, Winston Churchill and Emory Reves, Richard Holbrooke, and Rudolf Kasztner
Table Of Contents
Wallenburg's mission of mercy -- Restaurant played role in War -- History for children -- The siege of Budapest -- Horrible memories, horrible Holocaust -- Holocaust heroism -- Escape from the Holocaust -- Recorded memories of the Holocaust -- Holocaust toll : 6 million+ dead -- Memories of my mother -- I was saved by a prayer -- May 7, 1945, War is over -- Saved by Kraft mayo -- To love and to cherish -- Light may be shed on history -- Ordinary people in abnormal times -- Living in constant fear of Stalin -- Czech escape scheme revealed -- The tale of a lost Stradivarius -- Eastern Europe -- Encounter on Orient Express -- Czech intrigue -- Kafkaesque tale -- My connection to Madeleine Albright -- Secret passage -- Two milestones -- Great country -- John Brown raid -- Archduke Otto -- Churchill and Reves -- Hurricane catalyst of calm -- Killing Kasztner -- About freedom
Target audience
adult
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