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Social Science Jewish Studies

Suddenly the Shadow Fell

by (author) Leslie Meisels

Publisher
The Azrieli Foundation
Initial publish date
Sep 2014
Category
Jewish Studies, 20th Century, Historical
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781897470831
    Publish Date
    Sep 2014
    List Price
    $6.99

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Description

When 17-year-old Leslie Meisels insisted that his mother and two brothers join a transport leaving Debrecen, Hungary, to go who knows where, that decision luckily put them among the roughly 20,000 “exchange Jews” whose lives had been bartered for cash and military equipment in a secret deal with Adolf Eichmann.

About the author

Leslie Meisels was born on February 20, 1927, in Nádudvar, Hungary. His whole immediate family survived the Holocaust. He immigrated to the US in 1958, following the Hungarian Revolution, and to Canada in 1967. He married Eva Silber in 1961 and they live in Toronto.

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