CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Szabó, Alexandra Margit |
|---|---|
| Title | The Return and New Beginning for Hungarian Holocaust Survivors, 1945-1949 |
| Summary | This thesis first examines the circumstances of Holocaust survivors’ arrival back from Nazi camps to Hungary after liberation, and then investigates the most typical modes and strategies of how it was possible to begin a new life. After the mapping and presentation of the Jewish relief agencies who were waiting for deportees to return to Hungary in 1945, there is a focus on the deportees’ perceptions about the welcoming and the circumstances to which they arrived to. The earliest accounts through which the deportees’ impressions are studied are that of the reports recorded by workers of the National Committee of Attending Deportees (DEGOB) in 1945/6. Subsequently, after outlining the developed Jewish relief institutions functioning in Hungary –between 1946 and 1949–, the most typical coping strategies of the deportees are viewed: the (re-)establishment of families and emigration. Through an analysis of the articulations about these typical coping strategies, the unique characteristics of the group of deportees will outline, which eventually bears the significance of distuingishing this group from the entirety of Hungarian Holocaust survivors. I have reached my conclusions based on an approach of supplementing quantitative findings of the examined time period with a qualitative research at several archives based on a methodological sampling. |
| Supervisor | Kovács, András; Kádár, Gábor |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/szabo_alexandra.pdf |
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