Will to Freedom

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"A memoir of life under Nazi and communist rule in Hungary and Romania, this book provides an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young Communist to disenchanted dissident."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Jews, romania,  Jews, hungary,  Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives,  Political prisoners, romania,  Romania, biography,  Hungary, biography,  Political prisoners,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Jews,  Biography,  Personal narratives,  Juifs,  Biographies,  Holocauste, 1939-1945,  Récits personnels,  Prisonniers politiques,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Historical,  HISTORY,  Eastern,  Former Soviet Republics,  Russia & the Former Soviet Union,  Politischer Gefangener,  Erlebnisbericht,  Politik,  Judenverfolgung,  Extermination