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"Built in the mid-1800s, the Great Synagogue of Budapest has remained a constant through difficult times. As many as 20,000 Jewish people sought refuge in the synagogue during the Holocaust of World War II. However, the synagogue was also occupied by Nazi forces for part of the war. [This book explores] ... the facility, history, people, and beliefs behind the building."--Back cover.

A novel about a young Jewish girl in Budapest who suffers worse and worse conditions under Nazi rule until hope arrives in the form of a foreign man who risks his own life to save others. Based on the real-life efforts of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved up to 100,000 lives during the Second World War.

Collection of paintings and text illustrating the author's experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, including quotations from gravestones in a memorial Holocaust cemetery in Budapest.

In July, 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe. Over the next six months he rescued thousands of Jews by issuing diplomatic safe passage passes and establishing numerous safe houses. When Budapest was finally liberated by the Soviet army, Wallenberg disappeared into the Soviet gulag and to this day his exact fate is unknown.

Examines the lives of nine Jewish men who grew up in Budapest but where forced to flee in the face of the Nazis, and whose achievements in the fields of science, photography, literature, and the movie industry made lasting impressions on history.

Although she has been raised Catholic, Marika learns how dangerous it is to be of Jewish heritage and living in Hungary during World War II.

Collection of paintings and text illustrating the author's experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, including quotations from gravestones in a memorial Holocaust cemetery in Budapest.

A child tells how her family and other people in Budapest help save the famous hippopotamuses in their city's zoo from starving one difficult winter during World War II. Based on a true story.