Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Part autobiography, part family chronicle and part family saga, this work tells the story of the Weinbergers over the course of two centuries. From settlement in a Hungarian village in the late 18th century to the German occupation of Hungary in the spring of 1944, the author places her family's triumphs and tribulations against the backdrop of Hungarian history. The author's quest for her past began with her father, one of the few members of a vast extended family to survive the Nazi death camps. This work is her attempt to record the lives of these ancestors and reclaim their lives as part of her and her children's birthright. It incorporates myths and stories with family letters and detailed archival research to provide a look at the landscape of memory and a testament to the redemptive power of love and family.