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FREE THE GREAT ESCAPE: NINE JEWS WHO FLED HITLER AND CHANGED THE WORLD PDF Kati Marton | 288 pages | 17 Mar 2008 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 9780743261166 | English | London, United Kingdom Heroes from Hungary | by István Deák | The New York Review of Books Ilona Marton was a prize-winning journalist and political prisoner. As a correspondent for United Press, she covered the communist show-trials, including the trial of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty. Inshe and her journalist-husband Endre Marton were convicted on sham charges of The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World for the United States. They served time in a maximum-security Hungarian The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World and, after their release, filed stirring first-hand reports about the Hungarian uprising. Inthey were smuggled out of Hungary and were granted refugee status in the US. Little is known about Ilona Marton's early life. Her father reportedly "was a horse breeder whose frequent gambling losses were of great trepidation to the family. He once came home with a silver-tipped umbrella and announced that it was all the family owned. She raised her children as devout Roman Catholics and told them that their grandparents had died in the siege of Budapest in They did not discover their Jewish roots until they were adults. She was interviewing an old friend of her mother's who was a Holocaust survivor, when the woman suddenly said, "Of course, you know your grandparents were in one of the first transports to Auschwitz," where they perished. Kati Marton later was to write: "As a matter of fact, I did not know. I had no idea. I was shocked, not because I minded being Jewish I did not really know what that meant but because I was stunned that something so essential had been kept from me. Ilona Marton was married briefly to Sandor Brody, whom she divorced. Ilona Marton died in Maryland on September 4,at the age of Page created by Helene Kenvin. All rights reserved. THE GREAT ESCAPE | Kirkus Reviews Kati Marton born April 3, is a Hungarian-American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radiowhere she started as a production assistant inas well as print journalism and writing a number of books. They served nearly two years in prison on false charges of espionage for the U. Raised a Roman Catholicshe learned much later, and by accident, that her grandparents were Jewswho were murdered at The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World Auschwitz concentration camp. Growing up in Hungary, she had a French nannyso she was raised speaking both Hungarian and Frenchlearning American English when her family moved to the U. Marton has been married three times. She was first married to Carroll Wetzel, a retired international investment banker from Philadelphia, in the early The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. Her third husband was diplomat Richard Holbrookefrom until his death in Decemberfrequently traveling with him during his diplomatic missions in the former Yugoslavia and in the Middle East. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American writer. BudapestHungary. Carroll Wetzel div. Peter Jennings. Richard Holbrooke. Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved Gale Biography In Context. The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, Secretary, Perhaps, and Ms. The Washington Post. December 13, New York Times. August 18, January 23, Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. Amanda Urban, International Creative Management. Emerging From the Shadow of History | Central European University It is one of the largest synagogues in Europe, today serving a small Jewish community. But Ms. Marton was also talking about family history: her great-grandfather was married in the synagogue, and her maternal grandparents perished at Auschwitz. The city embarked on a building spree to make itself worthy of its newfound status: a neo-Classical Hapsburg palace rose on the bluffs of Buda, facing a massive Westminster-inspired parliament building across the river in Pest. From toBudapest grew to more than a million residents from , many of them Jews drawn from the provinces by the The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World economy and cosmopolitan atmosphere. By20 percent of city residents were Jewish, compared with just 5 percent in the rest of the kingdom. There was no ghetto and little Zionist yearning for a Jewish homeland — even though the father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was born in a building where the synagogue now stands. Instead there were opportunities and ideas packed into bustling Pest, which was dotted with cafes, the social and intellectual hubs of the day. And for a brief, deceptive period — one generation, Ms. Marton writes — anti-Semitic prejudice waned, and those liberated from its strictures responded with a remarkable, concentrated flowering of creative genius. Four of The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World men profiled in Ms. But history circles this city like a bird of prey, and time and again has swooped down to drive off its brilliant sons and daughters, as it did again with Ms. He was there to alert Einstein to the potential of nuclear fission to produce a devastating bomb. And he enlisted that great man in warning President Franklin D. A walk through town takes Ms. Here is the street down which Capa walked to high school, the same that Korda and the later noble laureate Imre Kertesz and Andy Grove, the co-founder of Intel, attended. Around the corner is the Royal Hotel, where Korda lived. Marton said. And nearby still stands the cathedral-like spire of the Cafe New York, a social and intellectual center of the times. The cafe has been restored in all its baroque opulence, dripping gold and crystal from its twisted columns and satyr sconces. But no writers, no actors, no directors huddled over the tables on the recent afternoon that Ms. Marton stopped there. Within months Admiral Miklos Horthy, former commander of the Austro-Hungarian imperial fleet, rode into Budapest on a white horse and ruled Hungary as regent for the next 24 years. He became an early ally of Hilter and took fascism to his country. They went first to Paris, Vienna or Berlin, then further afield as the Nazis came to power. To survive, Ms. After the war ended, they were still barred from holding many jobs because of their political views and social class. They found work as reporters for Western news agencies and moved to an Art Deco apartment in the diplomatic quarter in the hills of Buda. When Ms. Marton was 6, her father was arrested, then her mother a few months later. Both were tried and convicted as spies. Marton and her sister were sent to a foster home, while her parents were locked away in a reddish stone prison that still stands in the center of town. Her mother was released The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World nearly a year and her father after 18 months. They resumed their reporting careers, and Ms. They were eventually spirited out of the country. Home Page World U..