Revenge and Revolution: A Fictionalized Memoir

Marika Junger is a fourteen-year old Hungarian Jewish girl who, at age nine, escaped the Budapest ghetto with her mother and went into hiding in a small mountain refuge. At the end of WWII, they return to Budapest to a Hungary "liberated" by Stalin's Soviet Army. She learns that part of her family were denounced and perished in Auschwitz. Through a chance encounter with a former neighbor, Marika learns that her family in hiding in Budapest, had been denounced by a neighbor covetous of their...