A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author\'s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy-Masz k\'s parents, Hanna and Alad r, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940.
Praise for I Kiss Your Hands Many Times "I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy-Masz k\'s family in pre- and post-World War II Europe, capturing the Many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years.
She resurrects in riveting detail a lost world of splendor and carefully limns the moral struggles that history exacted--from a country and its individuals.
Framed by a cache of letters written between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy-Masz k\'s family memoir tells the story, at once intimate and epic, of the complicated relationship Hungary had with its Jewish population--the moments of glorious humanism that stood apart from its history of anti-Semitism--and with the rest of the world.
After months of waiting for visas and transit, she finally arrived in a devastated Budapest in December 1945, where at last they were wed.
After nearly two years without contact, he located Hanna and wrote her a letter that warned that he was not the man she\'d last seen, but he was still in love with her.
Alad r survived Dachau, a fragile and anxious version of himself.
In a secret and controversial deal brokered with Heinrich Himmler, the family turned over their vast holdings in exchange for their safe passage to Portugal.
Though Many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, they were forced into hiding.
She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates.
He was a rising star in the foreign ministry--a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau.
A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author\'s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy-Masz k\'s parents, Hanna and Alad r, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940
