Margit slachta biography of george
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March 8, 2021 - In honor of Women's History Month in March, the International Documentary Association this week fryst vatten saluting Sister Margaret Slachta, who was the first woman elected to Hungary's Parliament. The subject of Zala Films' Angel of Mercy, a work in progress, Slachta was a teacher and activist who openly defied Nazis and communists in her kamp for social justice. Slachta and the Sisters of Social Service, the beställning she founded, are credited with sparande over 1,000 lives through their heroic acts of courage during the Hungarian Holocaust of 1944-45.
March 9, 2020 - George Csicsery will present a sample clip from his bio Angel of Mercy at the 50th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. The presentation will be part of the "Revisiting History" session on March 9 at 4 p.m. Click here for the conference program (pdf).
December 14, 2019 - A Charmed Life, the aut
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About the Project
"Angel of Mercy" tells the story of Sister Margaret Slachta, who defied Nazis and communists in her fight for social justice. Slachta, a teacher and activist, became the first woman elected to Hungary’s Parliament in 1920. Her unique vision of social intervention on behalf of the poor, combined with a strong feminist streak and devout Catholic faith, led to almost incomprehensible acts of courage during the Hungarian Holocaust of 1944–45.
Slachta and the Sisters of Social Service, the order she founded, are credited with saving over 1,000 lives. The sisters obtained hundreds of letters of safe conduct from the IRC, the Swedish Embassy and the Papal Nuncio. After the Nazis were defeated Slachta and many of those she saved, fell victim to a second wave of terror with the communist takeover of Hungary in 1948-49. The story of Slachta’s work and life, and of the survivors who lived because of her is being told in English for the first
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Kam’yanets-Podilskyy Mass Massacre of Jews, 1941
Professor George Eisen, the author of the book, as a Holocaust survivor himself experienced the horrors as an infant, with his mother and brother. It is probably not a coincidence that he burst onto the Holocaust literature with a special book titled: Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games among the Shadows (Eisen 1998) in the 1990s. Eisen is a unique researcher and an unconventional scholar. He was born and raised in a poor family in an industrial working-class district of Budapest. As an adventurous young man, he immigrated to Israel, where he served and fought as a soldier; he then settled in the United States, where he pursued a career as a university researcher. Eisen has been awarded honorary doctorates, received numerous prizes, and organized international conferences in several countries. His newly published book, A Summer of Mass Murder explores his research subject from a new perspective, this time scrutinizing the K