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This finely observed and moving book documents not only a crucial period in European history but is also a memoir of loveand struggle in impossible times. Global politics today make its publication all the more topical, and it should encourage us not to forget those dark years and what we must learn from them. --Darian Leader, psychoanalyst and member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research A tremendously moving story of love, persecution, and survival, the memoirs of Artur Renyi magically transport us to Budapest and offer us a chilling portrait of the struggle of the Hungarian Jews during the Nazi regime. Sensitively introduced by Ilonka Venier Alexander, stylishly translated by members of Renyi's family, and superbly contextualised by Professor Judit Meszaros, Love and Survival in Budapest: The Memoir of Artur Renyi has the capacity to touch our hearts and to break our hearts in equal measure. --Professor Brett Kahr, Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy in London, Trustee of the Freud Museum, and Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology

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Ilonka Venier Alexander is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with thirty years' experience in the field of mental health. She had the opportunity to testify before the United States Congress in the early days of the HIV epidemic about its impact on Boston area veterans. For years her area of specialization was adults with a severe and persistent mental illness. Later in her career she helped to write the mental health standards for children and adolescents in Nova Scotia, at the time the only such standards in Canada. She received her Masters of Social Work degree from the University of Southern California and is the granddaughter of Dr Franz Alexander, founder of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Nauszika Mathe-Arvay was born in Budapest in 1973 and still lives in the neighbourhood, where for the last decade she has worked as a psychologist for an elementary school. She is especially interested in how to create an integrative community in which every member can play a valuable role, applying narrative methods and restorative practice. She considers all personal, family, and community roots, as well as intercultural aspects, very important. Zsuzsanna Renyi worked as a historian for the Hungarian Academy's Research Institute and was a lecturer for ELTE University in Budapest. She has retired but is still doing translations as well as teaching English. She is especially interested in Anglo-American cultural history and civilization. In recent years she has published a book of interviews about his father, the mathematician Alfred Renyi. She is enjoying family life and her grandchildren.

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