The book discusses a formerly unknown and invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944 committed by
a paramilitary group lead by a women. Andrea Petö uncovers the gripping history of the fi rst
private Holocaust memorial erected in Budapest in 1945. Based on court trials interviews with
survivors perpetrators and investigators the book illustrates the complexities of gendered
memory of violence. It examines the dramatic events: massacre deportation robbery homecoming
and fi ght for memorialization from the point of view of the perpetrators and the survivors.
The book will change the ways we look at intimate killings during the Second World-War.
