The Soul of Things

Memoir of a Youth Interrupted

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Pub Date 20 Oct 2020 | Archive Date 23 Nov 2020

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An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the first English translation of the widely acclaimed memoir by Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since it was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title Anima Rerum, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and in Germany. Featured in countless interviews and several prize-winning documentary films, at the age of ninety-five she is a frequent speaker at Holocaust commemorations in Hungary, Germany, and elsewhere.

The Soul of Things combines a rare depiction of upper-middle-class Jewish life in pre-war Hungary with the chronicle of a woman’s deportation and survival in the camps. Fahidi is a gifted writer with a unique voice, full of wisdom, humanity, and flashes of dark humour. With an unsentimental, philosophical perspective, she recounts her journey from the Great Hungarian Plain to the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the forced labour camp of Münchmühle, and back.

The English edition includes a new introduction by historians Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor, the original prefaces to the Hungarian and German editions, an essay on the Münchmüle Camp by Fritz Brinkman-Frisch, and extensive notes providing historical and cultural context for Fahidi’s narrative.


Éva Fahidi is an activist and author who has captivated audiences with her life story as an Auschwitz survivor.

Judith Szapor is an associate professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University

An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the first English translation of the widely acclaimed memoir by Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since it was first published in...


A Note From the Publisher

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction
The Storyteller of the Shoah: Éva Fahidi and Anima Rerum
Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor

Preface to the Hungarian Edition: ... because we cannot go on otherwise
György Gábor

Preface to the German Edition
Götz Aly

Anima Rerum: The Soul of Things

The Münchmüle Camp
Fritz Brinkmann-Frisch

List of the 1,000 Women taken from Auschwitz to Allendorf, August 13, 1944

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction
The Storyteller of the Shoah: Éva Fahidi and Anima Rerum
Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor

Preface to the Hungarian Edition: ... because we...


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