Rolf Vorhaug presents the full text of the book "Hungarian Tragedy," by Peter Fryer and originally published in December 1956. Fryer discusses the Hungarian revolution, which occurred in October and November 1956. The book covers how the revolution began, Gyor, Babolna, Budapest, the revolution, and Soviet intervention.

The story of Karoly, a farmer forced to the front during the war, then coerced to join a collective after the war and arrested for being a local leader of the young farmers' union and he was imprisoned. As a political prisoner, he was forced to become a miner, he escaped to England in 1956. In London, he worked to regain what he had lost, his dignity and freedom. This is the story of his life.

A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to the senseless brutality that, in a matter of months, decimated what was Europe’s largest and last-surviving Jewish community. Writing immediately after the war and examining only those critical months of 1944 when Hitler's Germany occupied its ally Hungary, Ernő Munkácsi describes the Judenrat's desperation and fear as it attempted to prevent the looming catastrophe, agonized over decisions not made, and struggled to grasp the immensity of a tragedy that would take the lives of 427,000 Hungarian Jews in the very last year of the Second World War. This long-overdue translation makes available Munkácsi's profound and unparalleled insight into the Holocaust in Hungary, revealing the "choiceless choices" that confronted members of the Judenrat forced to execute the Nazis' orders. With an in-depth introduction, a brief biography of Ernő Munkácsi, ample annotations by László Csősz and Ferenc Laczó, two dozen archival photographs, and detailed maps, How It Happened is an essential resource for historians and students of the Holocaust, the Second World War, and Central Europe.