Ákos György Bálint

GYÖRGY ÁKOS BÁLINT, poet journalist and lawyer. While still a student in law, he was arrested with his father by the Gestapo on 22 March 1944, to be transferred in April to the internment camp of Kistarcsa, where he was detained until September. His book Sziget a mérgezett tengerben [An island in a toxic sea] relates the story of these two captivities. Since 1978 he has been member of the Presidency of the Hungarian Bar Association where he served as Secretary between 1997 and 2006, and as editor of the Society’s periodicals. He is the author of three volumes of poetry: Két szilveszter között [Between two New Years’ Eves, 1941], Költők kórusa [Poets’s choir, 1943], and Édes álmom az igazság [Truth, my sweet dream, 2012].

AN ISLAND IN A TOXIC SEA – SUBJECTIVE RECOLLECTIONS OF A YEAR OF ADVERSITY

THE ISLAND OF ISTVÁN VASDÉNYEY It is 1944. I am on an island of comparative security. The sea around me comprises the waters, skies and lands of our Hungarian soil, beset on two sides – a sea poisoned by peril, trepidation and fear […]. The bloodiest conflict between the largest

2015.03.05.

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