Volume 29, Number 1 · February 4, 1982
Could the Hungarian Jews Have Survived?
By István Deák
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary
by Randolph L. Braham
Columbia University Press, 1,269 pp., $80.00 (two volumes)
Statistics on the 'Final Solution' in Hungary are contradictory and bewildering. Some refer only to the halfmillion Jews and 'Christian Jews' living in the truncated Hungary created by the peace treaties of 1918. Others add to this the 400,000-odd Jews and converts in the lands Hungary recovered from her neighbors with German help between 1938 and 1941. These are sometimes counted as Hungarian Jews, sometimes as Czech, Romanian, and Yugoslav Jews. The bitter fact is that, of the 900,000 people in Hungary in 1941 whom the law regarded as Jews, almost two-thirds did not survive the war.
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