{"product_id":"9780991291632","title":"A Link in the Chain","description":"In Night of the Mist, Eugene Heimler gave a moving and gripping account of his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. In this book, A Link in the Chain, he describes his eventful return journey from Auschwitz to his home in Hungary and how he reshaped his life since the end of the war.\u003cbr\u003eHeimler tells his stories poetically and vividly:\u003cbr\u003eHe travels towards home on a buffer of a train, next to a German SS man who could easily push him off; \u003cbr\u003eHe witnesses the rape of Kati, his travel companion by Russian brutes, with their machine guns aimed at him; \u003cbr\u003eReturning to Hungary, at the age of 23, he soon realizes that as a Jew he is still not wanted in his native country.\u003cbr\u003eThe Red Army occupies Hungary and makes attempts on his life; \u003cbr\u003eHe works as a journalist in the Social Democratic Headquarters and is arrested and charged with treason for an article he wrote; shots are aimed at him. \u003cbr\u003eWhen the Right Wing Smallholders win the Hungarian election in 1945, he contemplates leaving Hungary.\u003cbr\u003eAn invitation to spy for the Communists in return for getting his poems published gets him into a momentary trap, but he outwits \"Uncle Zoltan\", his conspirator who unwittingly provides him with the Russian exit visa he still needs in order to go to London 'for a short visit'.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1947 he travels to England. His newly married wife, Lily, follows him later.\u003cbr\u003eWhen in 1949 the Secret Police tortures his friends in Budapest, Heimler breaks down, as now all hope is lost for ever returning to his native homeland. \u003cbr\u003eHis trials in England are manifold. Without speaking English, the couple lives on fear and tears. When Heimler arrived in England he was, mentally, still a very sick man. He describes the psychoanalytic treatment which he underwent at that time.\u003cbr\u003eAfter years of hardship and struggle he qualifies as a psychiatric social worker in 1953. He becomes County Psychiatric Social Work Organizer for the Middlesex County Council, and his experimental work made him one of the pioneers of 'community mental health' in England.\u003cbr\u003eHis interviews with patients in pubs and parks have been the subject of much controversy.\u003cbr\u003eHeimler goes on to show not only how he affects his patients but also how they affect him, and how he grows through and with them.\u003cbr\u003eHis account, in the latter part of the book, of the 'Hendon Experiment', in which he works hand in hand with the National Assistance Board in an attempt to solve the problem of the 'work-shy', and of his experiment in mental health with a General Practitioner, will be of particular interest to doctors, social workers and all who are concerned with the care of the mentally ill.","brand":"Miriam B Heimler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50014912446704,"sku":"9780991291632","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780991291632_p0.jpg?v=1784254447","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780991291632","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}