Not A Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man's Fight for Freedom

by Robert Wolf, Janice Harper (Editor)

Overview

Hungary, 1944. Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the outside world and forced to endure inhumane brutalities and servitude. Once freed, a new oppression took hold as communist rule under Stalin turned friends to foes, enveloped the nation in fear and suspicion, and tested everyone's character and strength.

This is the true story of Ervin Wolf and his family as the fascist tide of Eastern Europe takes hold of Hungary. From the Wolfs' comfortable upper-class life to imprisonment, daring escapes, tragic deaths, cloak-and-dagger adventures, and Ervin's final escape to freedom in the dead of night, Not a Real Enemy is a page-turning tale of suspense, tragedy, comedy, and ultimately, triumph.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789493276727
Publisher:	Amsterdam Publishers
Publication date:	10/12/2022
Series:	Holocaust Survivor True Stories
Pages:	422
Sales rank:	453,586
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Robert Wolf, M.D., grew up in a suburb of Detroit as the only child of Ervin and Judit Wolf. Their stories of their escape from communist Hungary, and his father's tragic history of escaping the Nazis twice but losing his own parents at the hands of Joseph Mengele, inspired Robert to document his parents' tales and share those stories with Jewish groups and others throughout the United States. In Not a Real Enemy Robert shares his family saga-and the forgotten history of the nearly half million Hungarian Jews who were deported and killed during the Holocaust-through an epic and inspiring tale of daring escapes, terrifying oppression, tragedy, and triumph.

Janice Harper is a ghostwriter who has ghostwritten eight memoirs and several nonfiction books. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, her ethnography, Endangered Species: Health, Illness and Death Among Madagascar's People of the Forest was nominated for the Margaret Mead award for anthropology written to appeal to a wide audience. She has been a regular feature blogger for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today.