<p>This fictionalized account of real-life occurrences chronicles one woman’s amazing survival of the Hungarian Holocaust. Through the author’s creative first-person telling of her mother’s lifebased on her mother’s written and oral observations as well as the author’s own childhood memoriesa portrait of the remarkable Eva Leopold emerges. After spending an idyllic childhood on a pastoral estate in rural Hungary, Eva settled in Budapest where despite having been raised Catholic by parents who'd converted from Judaism and being married to a gentile, Eva was considered Jewish by the Nazi regime. Beginning in 1944when exemptions for Jewish women married to gentiles were liftedher daily life was dominated by desperate attempts to stay alive, avoid deportation to a death camp, and protect her family. Initially saved by taking shelter in the Papal Legation, Eva also hid in the air raid shelter in the basement of the family’s apartment building, which disappeared when the building went up in flames, consuming the horses stabled on the first floor. Having been widowed, Eva remarried, and she and her new husband made a death-defying escape to Austria. At risk of losing their U.S. visas, Eva and her husband enrolled their daughters in a Catholic boarding school, and boarded a ship to New York where they awaited their daughters' arrival six months later. A touching epilogue, written by the daughter-author, is also included.</p>

Burning Horses: A Hungarian Life Turned Upside Down

Literature & Fiction

Hoff, Agatha

Genre Fiction

Sweet Earth Flying Press, LLC

<p>Judge* Hoff, Jesus Loves You, but the Rest of Us Think You're an A**hole! is Agatha Hoff's captivating account of her years as a San Francisco Court Commissioner. The book's title was taken from the graffiti left by a disgruntled litigant on the courthouse bathroom wall, much to the amusement of observers, including Agatha herself. From the recurrent parade of prostitutes she recognized on a first-name basis, to the out-of-towners trying to navigate a day in the city, Agatha captures it all with her keen eye for detail and wry sense of humor.</p>

Judge* Hoff, Jesus Loves You, but the Rest of Us Think You're an A**hole!: Tales from my 20 years as a San Francisco Court Commissioner

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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