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Author:
Levine, Paul A. (Paul Ansel)
Title:
Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest : myth, history and Holocaust / Paul A. Levine.
Publisher:
Vallentine Mitchell,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xviii, 392 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Wallenberg, Raoul,--1912-1947.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Biography.
Diplomats--Sweden--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Budapest.--Budapest.
World War, 1939-1945--Rescue--Rescue--Budapest.--Budapest.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Historiography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Framing the Issues -- Myth, History and the Historian's Social Responsibility -- A Life before Budapest: Wallenberg's Background, Personality and Motives -- March 1944: The Holocaust in Hungary, An Overview -- April-May: Swedish Diplomacy in Budapest Prior to Wallenberg's Arrival -- June: Myth and Fact: Understanding Wallenberg's Recruitment and Mission -- July: Wallenberg Arrives in Budapest -- Summer 1944: Per Anger, Archbishop Erling Eidem and the 'Everyday' Politics of Genocide -- August: Valdemar Langlet and Carl Ivan Danielesson, the Forgotten Swedes -- September: The Calm before the Storm -- October: Raoul Wallenberg Enters History -- November-December: Death, Despair and Heroism -- January 1945: The End of Diplomacy and Freedom -- Epilogue: 17 January 1945: Wallenberg Leaves History and Enters Myth.
ISBN:
9780853037286 (pbk.)
0853037280 (pbk.)
0853037272 (hbk.)
9780853037279 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)467760624
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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