A Memoir in C-Minor

When the German armies occupied Hungary in 1944, they easily found Hungarians—the “Arrowcross” party—eager to do their dirty work for them. Agnes Karpathi works in Budapest as a nurse in the “protected” homes for orphaned and abandoned children, noting all the evil going on around her. And her beloved Oskar, a Swedish diplomat, accompanies Raoul Wallenberg, one of the Holocaust’s “righteous gentiles,” behind the Soviet lines as the war is ending...

This is “for those that cannot tell their stories,” says the author. It is “for the memory of those perished.”