Shoes Along the Danube refers to the memorial of cast iron Shoes that honor Hungarian Holocaust victims.
He also is the author of a number of books, including From Budapest.
Zane visits Hungary often where he is a board member of the Julius Rézler Foundation in Budapest.
He taught at Pepperdine and California State, Dominguez Hills, before moving to the University of New Mexico, where he retired as Regents\' Professor Emeritus.
Zane Reeves, Ph.
D., served in Brazil in the Peace Corps.
His graduate work was at UCLA and USC.
Highly recommended - Bryan Dawson, Executive Chairman, American Hungarian Federation About the Author: T.
The Shoes Along the Danube is a most fitting allegory for all those that left their lives behind.
Colman, Sydney, Australia A fascinating, honest look at lives intertwined with the hiStory unfolding around them set against the very real backdrop of that tumultuous hiStory itself.
A. - S.
Reeves recounts the experiences of Holocaust victims and survivors, Righteous Gentiles who save Jews, as well as a dramatic ending in which a husband and wife are forced to choose between their vows and freedom.
Yet, in 1944 everything changed when the Germans occupy Hungary for the purpose of exterminating its Jews.
Even though Hungary was forced to become Germany\'s wartime ally, it looked that Hungarian Jews would be spared the genocide occurring throughout Europe.
Professor Reeves tells a fascinating Story of two of his Hungarian-American friends, Julius and my cousin Agnes, who grew up between world wars in Gentile and Jewish families on Rose Hill, an affluent district of Budapest.
Agnes Földes is a Jewish woman who fights to maintain her dignity during the Holocaust.
His American half-brother, Francis, is a diplomat helping democratic Hungarians fight Nazis, and later organizes covert activities against the communists.
Julius Rézler is a rising star among Budapest academics and refuses to compromise his integrity.
The Story builds through the siege of Budapest, the Russian occupation of Hungary, and separation by exile.
In 1944, Germany invades Hungary to exterminate Europe\'s last remaining group of Jews at the infamous Auschwitz death camp.
The Story begins in pre-World War II Budapest, as increasing fascism and anti-Semitism lead Hungary to become an ally of Germany.
Based on a True story, this amazing book follows the lives of two extended Hungarian families, the Rézlers and the Földes, one gentile and the other Jewish, through three decades.
Shoes Along the Danube refers to the memorial of cast iron Shoes that honor Hungarian Holocaust victims
