Remembering Resistance Book Review with Dr. Asa Eger

The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center is delighted to host Dr. Asa Eger, the grandson of Holocaust Rescuer Lazslo Szamosi. Dr. Eger will be discussing his new book detailing his grandfather’s legacy as a Jewish Holocaust Rescuer.

The existence and achievements of Jewish “self-rescuers” within Nazi-occupied Hungary remains, in spite of their significance, historically underexplored. In this illuminating chronicle of the life and work of Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, Remembering Resistance seeks to address this lacunae, offering an unique insight into a family’s personal history of resistance under the Nazi regime.

Combining oral testimony from fellow survivors, with a previously-unpublished translation of László’s memoir, this book foregrounds the remarkable work of the Szamosis and their network, in rescuing Jews from the Death Marches and reuniting displaced families. Through doing so, this book offers a powerful framework for mediating how we remember Jewish experiences of the Holocaust.

Dr. Eger is Professor of the Islamic World in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is an archaeologist and current co-director of the Caesarea Coastal Archaeological Project, excavating the site of Caesarea Maritima in Israel. He has a Ph.D from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

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