US EditionBook Review | 1945 and Other Stories
- Gábor T. Szántó published the book 1945 and Other Stories in 2024, exploring Hungarian Jewish experiences from the Holocaust onward.
- Szántó draws on his secular Jewish background and Holocaust survivor parents to address the lingering effects of war and identity.
- The book includes stories like Homecoming, 1945, inspired by the 2017 award-winning film, and deals with guilt, property, and Jewish identity.
- The film 1945 depicts the act of two Orthodox Jews laying to rest 1,417 bars of soap made in Germany within a Jewish burial ground, each bar symbolizing a local Jew who was deported in 1944.
- Szántó’s work highlights enduring Jewish challenges in Hungary, including alienation, historical memory, and societal guilt decades after the war.
17 Articles
17 Articles
1215, 1789, 1945, 1989: the dates that forged freedom in Europe
The dates are essential to guide us in the labyrinth of history; but they do not always reflect the whole truth. For some researchers, World War II did not begin on September 1, 1939 and did not end on May 8, 1945. The 80th anniversary of the end of the conflict, which is commemorated next Thursday, comes at a particularly delicate time, in which many of the certainties over which the postwar period of the continent settled have been blown up. C…
At this commemoration they are still there, eyewitnesses of the Second World War. Tom Stoorvogel is one of them.
In ten years, there will probably be no people left who can tell about the Second World War from their own experiences. The Foundation for the Preservation of War Memories collects as many stories as possible for the future.
Historian Stelzl-Marx: "Wars don't stop when the weapons...
"It has been over for a long time, but it hasn't passed," says historian Barbara Stelzl-Marx on the past management in Austria. A conversation about the victims' myth after the Second World War, memory fatigue and the repetition of history.
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