hungary

A collection of eight folktales in which justice is depicted.

A Hungarian Jewish family of talented musicians escapes Nazi persecution during World War II.

Lili Bandel, having escaped the evacuation of her village by the Nazis, makes her way to Budapest in 1944 where she is taken in by the Becks, a wealthy Jewish family, whose nephew, Paul, a disbarred young lawyer, goes to great lengths to protect his loved ones, including his brother Istvan, a dentist in a nearby city who takes refuge with his assistant.

Tells the story of how Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian businessman working in Budapest, saved the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II by posing as the city's official Spanish consul.

Tells the story of Rezso Kasztner, a Hungarian Jewish activist credited with liberating 1,684 Jews on a train to Switzerland in July 1944, and going on to figure in saving the lives of some 100,000 more by negotiating with the Nazis, promising money, jewelry, and war material in exchange for Jewish men, women, and children.

Thirteen-year-old Nelly, a Jewish girl living in Communist Hungary, must give up everything she cares about when her family is forced to flee the country during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and she wonders if she will ever again find a place to call home.

Chronicles the histories of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia and includes a historical dictionary of the region, chronologies, lists of rulers, maps, and a selected bibliography.

Not even a fierce dragon can deter clever Tobias from succeeding in his search for his fortune.

A biography of the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.