How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry

A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to the senseless brutality that, in a matter of months, decimated what was Europe’s largest and last-surviving Jewish community.

Writing immediately after the war and examining only those critical months of 1944 when Hitler's Germany occupied its ally Hungar...