jews, hungarian

"Ferenc Andai is one of approximately 6,000 Jewish Hungarian men conscripted to work as forced labourers in the copper mines of Bor, Serbia, between 1943 and 1944. Subject to the whims of cruel Hungarian commanders and German overseers, the men are forced to work to exhaustion while they subsist on a starvation diet. For nineteen-year-old Ferenc, the only relief from his harsh reality is his company--an artistic and literary circle of men that includes the poet Mikl?os Radn?oti."--.

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.