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Béla Zsolt
1895–1949
Novelist, poet, journalist, and politician Béla Zsolt was born in Komáron, Hungary. He worked in Budapest for a number of radical Hungarian newspapers before becoming editor in chief of the radical weekly A Toll. During World War II, Zsolt was deported to a labor camp in Ukraine. He was later sent to Bergen-Belsen and from there to Switzerland, as part of the Kasztner group. After the war, Zsolt returned to Hungary and in 1947 was elected to parliament. His work Nine Suitcases was one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs.
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Nine Suitcases
These nocturnal passenger trains in wartime have their own peculiar sounds. The deportation wagons have a way of screeching, like an eagle or a vulture—whereas this kind of train whines and groans as…