Book Review: A Crime in the Family

A Crime in the Family

A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth

by Sacha Batthyany

Perseus Books, Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press

Biographies & Memoirs , History

Pub Date 10 Oct 2017

I am reviewing a copy of A Crime in the Family through Da Capo Press and Netgalley:

We are introduced to Agnes who was ninety during the prologue but was eighteen when she was deported to the concentration camp. She survived Aushwitz .

In the Spring of 1945 on the Austrian-Hungarian not far from the front lines of the fast approaching red army Countess Margit Battyany gives a party in her mansion. The war was almost over and the SS officers and German aristocrats drinking were well aware that they were going to loose. Later that night the Nazis at the party walked down to the village wheee 180 Jewish laborers were enslaved, they made them strip down and shot them all.

Saccha Batthyany pens a powerful memoir about the events and the vague memories of his Aunt Margarit. This book deals with not only the horrors of Aushwitz, but also the Chas of wartime Budapest and the brutalities of the soviet occupation. It tells stories of corruption and cover-up partly through surviving journals of others in the author's family.

I give A Crime in the Family five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!