From Darkness into Light: My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom

About the Author

Robert Ratonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, in January 1938, a critical year in world history. In March of that year, Nazi Germany annexed Austria into the Third Reich, signaling Hitler's intent to start WWII by invading Poland in 1939. In November 1938, organized pogroms were carried out throughout Germany and Austria in what is called the Kristallnacht, or the "Nights of the Broken Glass," when a hundred Jews were killed, seven thousand Jewish businesses were destroyed, ...