Zsidósors Délkelet-Dunántúlon a XVIII. századtól a holocaustig (Kaposvár, 1994)

Szili Ferenc: Somogy megye második világháborús zsidó áldozatainak községsoros névjegyzéke és főbb adatai

Bősze Sándor: The anti-Semitic public disturbances in Somogy in 1883 In his study called The anti-Semitic public disturbances in Somogy7 in 1883 the author writes about the outbreaks of violence that overran the county in Southern Transdanubia where the rate of the Jewish population was the highest. These outbreaks were part of the nationwide anti-Semitic public disturbances that followed the trial of Tiszaeszlár. In the introductory part he briefly draws up the general background of the events, the birth of political anti-Semitism in Hungary. Then follows the factual description of the events that took part in the county which are illustrated on a map too. Regarding the violence of the riots from the end of August till the end of October, 1882, the clashes of Csurgó, Gyékényes, the Berzence region and Szigetvár can be considered as the most outstanding ones.

Ormos Mária: The ideological basis and political function of the Endlösung In her study of great span the author fits Nazism into the course of anti-Semitism that reaches back for centuries. She wants to find the answer to two questions; Did Nazism carry any radically new point of view, and if so, what? Secondly, she investigates what the politics of Hitler meant in the handling and resolving the Jewish question. Hitler exceeded each kind of the traditional anti-Semitisms, he set the interests of humankind against the international Jewish conspiracy. This mission, that is the rescue of mankind, came as a task upon the German national socialists. The study tangibly shows the roots of Hitler’s anti-Semitism and its final development. The confused program and anti-Semitism of Mein Kampf was looked down on by the contemporaries and the danger it posed was neglected. The initial successes of Hitler's foreign policy were not only the Nazis’ merit, but all of those who made concessions played a part in them. We can read about the different alternatives of the solution of the Jewish question, the failure of the conference of Evian in 1938 and the defencelessness of the European Jews. The study is the synthesis and summary of the birth and consequences of the Nazi ideology.

Szita Szabolcs: The persecution of the Jews in Hungary in 1944 The study provides a nationwide picture of the persecution of the Jews, showing the international connections as well. We can see the responsibility of the governmental bodies besides that of the Eichmann-commando. We can also read about the role of the Jewish Council with respect to the fact how it attempted to protect the interests of the Jews and how undefended it was in its work. The study shows anti-Semitic discriminative laws and statutes and their consequences. We can keep track of the growing number of the individually arrestedjews and the number of those packed in ghettos. Tragic fates, human sufferings, humiliations, internments and finally trains of death mark out the way of the dehumanization of the ruling power. As a counterpole we can read about those noble human gestures that even if not be: , able to counterbalance but were able to alleviate the pain for a few after all. Tire final conclusion of the study is that the political responsibility weighs down not only on the politicians but on all of those who could have done more in defending the Jews.

Andrássy Antal: Persecution of the Jews in Somogy (March -July 1944)

From the German occupation till the moving in the ghettos there were a number of anti-Semitic measures in the county as well as in the whole of the country. Parallel to the economic destruction of the Jews their psychic humiliation was a commonplace kind of thing. The abuse of power of the gendarmerie, the growing anti-Semitism, the denunciations and internments came as everyday events. The Jews were deprived of their economic possessions, were fired from their jobs, then hurled into ghettos where they lived an undefended life in miserable circumstances. The young men were called for forced labor service, they were torn away from their families according to a pre-planned inhuman conception. Some of the people hurled into ghettos put an end to their lives by committing suicide. And then the trains with fully packed cars started out for the death-camps. The author not only remembers but reminds all of us as well.

Judith Magyar Isaacson: Thank you for the life

The Hungarian publication of her book called The reminiscences of a survivor was issued in 1993. We can read about the life of a schoolgirl who went to a secondary school in Kaposvár, the everyday events of a Jewish family, their joys and sorrows from an age where it was not easy to

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