1st Edition

One Woman in the War Hungary 1944-1945

By Alaine Polcz Copyright 2002
162 Pages
by Central European University Press

Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. The autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of the... Read more
Introduction, The Honeymoon, A Refugee’s Idyll, The Front, Peace, Epilogue, Notes

Biography

Alaine Polcz (1922-2007) was psychologist and the author of several books in her field. She was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary.

Albert Tezla was Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.