Category: VOLUME III, No. 3

THE AMBASSADOR AND THE PHARAOH

Excrept from a Book – Text and drawings from István Orosz Whether into hell or heaven, as ambassador now enter – as a hasty harbinger, whose only mission is to bow, forgetting all the massacre. And, as he did, just act in stead of him who sent you as your

ME, A NOVEL

Chapters 5 and 6 Born in Budapest in 1935, George Jonas first spoke gibberish, then German, and finally settled on Hungarian in preparation for a lifetime of writing in English. Since 1956 Jonas has lived in Toronto. The excerpt here is from a work-in-progress entitled Me, A Novel. When completed,

THE SEARCH OF APPEARANCE

Poems of Hungary AUTHOR’S NOTE  We arrived in Budapest for a year’s stay on the day Princess Diana died, 1997, so these poems speak for an earlier era, then recently post-communist. The eleven poems the Editor has selected, six in this issue and five in the next, were written as

THE SOLDIER WHO SAVED THE LIVES OF BUDAPEST JEWS: COLONEL FERENC KOSZORÚS

Letter to the Editor from Frank Koszorús, Jr., Washington DC In march 1944, greater Hungary’s Jewish population exceeded 800,000. Nazi Germany invaded Hungary and installed a pro-German government that month, drastically changing the situation of the country and resulting in the destruction of its Jewry, which had survived under the