Reference Type: Book
Author: Balas, Egon
Year: 2000
Title: Will to Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Number of Pages: 469
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, memoir ,recollection, Communist era, politics, press, World War II, persecutions, press, biographies, Transylvania,Communist Party, emigration, secret police (Securitate), testimonies
Abstract: (En) "Will to Freedom" is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young Communist to disenchanted dissident.Attracted by its anti-Nazi stance, Balas joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1942, after Hungary had entered the war on Hitler's side. He helped organize work stoppages and distributed antiwar leaflets. In his memoir, he offers a compelling account first of his eventual imprisonment and ordeal under torture and then of his escape and life in hiding.
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