Description
Book SynopsisAn exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title Anima Rerum, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and in Germany. Featured in countless interviews and several prize-winning documentary films, at the age of ninety-five she is a frequent speaker at Holocaust commemorations in Hungary, Germany, and elsewhere.
The Soul of Things combines a rare depiction of upper-middle-class Jewish life in pre-war Hungary with the chronicle of a woman’s deportation and survival in the camps. Fahidi is a gifted writer with a unique voice, full of wisdom, humanity, and flashes of dark humour. With an unsentimental, philosophical perspective, she recounts her journey from the Great Hungarian Plain to the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the forced labour camp of Münchmühle, and back.
The English edition in
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Introduction The Storyteller of the Shoah: Éva Fahidi and Anima Rerum Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor Preface to the Hungarian Edition: ... because we cannot go on otherwise György Gábor Preface to the German Edition Götz Aly Anima Rerum: The Soul of Things The Münchmüle Camp Fritz Brinkmann-Frisch List of the 1,000 Women taken from Auschwitz to Allendorf, August 13, 1944
