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Escape from Hungary

Michael Korda is moved by Kati Marton’s powerful memoir, Enemies of the People, about her parents’ struggles under fascism and communism, their hidden Jewish identity, and Eastern Europe’s weighty history.

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At a moment when many historians are trying to bring to the American public’s attention the Slovak government’s push to make it illegal for its substantial Hungarian minority to speak or use Magyar, their own language, it is both useful and a pleasure to read Kati Marton’s book, Enemies

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