May beetles: my first twenty years

The story of a girl from a warm and loving Jewish family, living a normal life in Nyirbator in eastern Hungary. She describes the innocence and excitement of her childhood, remembering her early years with verve and emotion, remarkably unaffected by what took place after the Nazis arrived. She describes the shattering of her family and their community from 1944, when the Germans transported the 3000 Jews of her town to Auschwitz. She lost her father to the gas chambers, yet she and her two sisters survived this concentration camp and several others to which they were transported as slave labour. They eventually escaped the final death march and were liberated by the advancing Russian army. Baba wrote this book in 1991 but only revealed the manuscript last year, when she was eighty-eight.