The great escape : nine Jews who fled Hitler and changed the world / Kati Marton.

• Journalist Marton brings to life an unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the United States, and changed the world. These nine men, each celebrated for individual achievements, were actually part of a unique group who grew up in a time and place that will never come again, shaped by Budapest's lively café life before the darkness closed in. She follows the lives of four history-changing scientists who helped usher in the nuclear age and the computer (Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, and [Nobelpristagare] Eugene Wigner); two major filmmakers (Michael Curtiz, who directed Casablanca, and Alexander Korda, who produced The Third Man); two immortal photographers (Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz); and one seminal writer (Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon).--From publisher description. 

Ämnesord

Jews  -- Hungary -- Budapest -- Biography. (LCSH)

Jews, Hungarian  -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)

Exiles  -- Hungary -- Budapest -- Biography. (LCSH)

Exiles  -- Hungary -- Budapest -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Judar  -- Ungern -- Budapest (sao)

Judar  -- Ungern -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Vetenskapsmän  -- Ungern (sao)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Klassifikation

DS135.H93 (LCC)

940.53/180922 (DDC)

Koafh (kssb)