Category: Hungary 1944-1945

IN MEMORIAM of my mother Paula Hertlik1910–2007 She taught us to live and love and be all that not harms freedom and dignity. *** “There is one experience that happens to nearly all human beings alike, and that is war.”George Orwell “War will be the music of the future.”Gyula Krúdy

Chapter from a Memoir in Progress* Back in February of 1939 Hungary’s Regent, Miklós Horthy, had forced the resignation of the pro-German Prime Minister Béla Imrédy and named Count Pál Teleki, an anglophile, to lead the government. Both Regent Horthy and Prime Minister Teleki despised Hitler and believed that the

FROM THE HONEYMOON An old railway man stood on the platform pointing to the sky, “Bombers!” Then his face turned pale, “Look, there come the bombers!” Three formations of what looked like three specks were descending above the buildings. I ran toward garrison headquarters. I found János there; we ran,