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The Three Graves of Anna Szenes: Memory and Bodypolitics in Hungary and Israel

The Three Graves of Anna Szenes: Memory and Bodypolitics in Hungary and Israel

Pető, Andrea
Politzer Maymon, Krisztina

Hardcover

General European HistoryIsrael & Palestine History

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ISBN10: 3112253752
ISBN13: 9783112253755
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages: 245
Language: English

This volume seeks answers to the question of why Anikó Szenes (1921-1944), a Jewish girl born and assimilated in Budapest who was murdered at the age of twenty-three, has three graves. What is the story behind these three places? Who were the people involved in this process, and what role did they play? On 7 November 1944, Anikó Szenes was executed in Budapest. In March 1950, during the Cold War, her body was taken from the Jewish cemetery on Kozma Street in Budapest to Italy via Austria under adventurous circumstances. In Naples, the coffin was loaded onto a ship and then transported to Haifa on another, more ceremonial-looking ship, from where, after a national mourning tour, it was buried in Jerusalem alongside Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism and the visionary of the State of Israel. The volume traces the decades-long journey of Szenes's body and grave across Europe. Through this story, it recounts not only the history of the Holocaust in Hungary and Israel as remembered by different social groups, but also the history of Jewish resistance, full of silence and conflict.

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