Tortenetunk, Tortenelem

Margit Beke Görög was a remarkable and prolific writer and translator from, especially, the Scandinavian languages. She was acquainted, in all, with ten languages and published almost 170 books.Part I of this book, is a memoir of the First World War, and incorporates Margit’s observations on her daughter Ata's acquisition of the Hungarian language. Her husband Imre was captured and became a prisoner of War in Siberia.Part II consists of letters addressed to her grandson Tamás and is an account of life in one of the ’Yellow Star Houses’ in 1944, where Jews were kept to be sent to the Budapest ghetto.She was saved by the heroic deeds of Ata and her husband, Gyula Kandó, who forged false identity papers for numerous Jewish relatives and friends. For these deeds, the Government of Israel conferred on Gyula and Ata the status of Righteous Among the Nations.