The Story of Pál Komor, the Raoul Wallenberg of Shanghai
Thu, Oct 24
|New York
Saving Central European Jews in China during World War II — A conversation in English with Mátyás Mervay the author of "A Patriot Left Behind. Rescuing Jews in Wartime Shanghai" (original title: "A cserben hagyott hazafi. Zsidómentés a háborús Sanghajban", published in 2023).
Time & Location
Oct 24, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
New York, 215 E 82nd St, New York, NY 10028, USA
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About the Event
BOOK PRESENTATION
The Story of Pál Komor, “the Raoul Wallenberg of Shanghai”
Saving Central European Jews in China during World War Two
Mátyás Mervay: A Patriot Left Behind. Rescuing Jews in Wartime Shanghai
About the event
A conversation in English with the author about his most recent book, A cserben hagyott hazafi. Zsidómentés a háborús Sanghajban (A Patriot Left Behind. Rescuing Jews in Wartime Shanghai, published in 2023). The book presents the story of Pál Komor, a Budapest-born businessman organizing aid for Shanghai’s nearly twenty-thousand Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. Later, Komor is also deprived of his Hungarian citizenship because of newly introduced antisemitic legislation.