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Madelaine Lang was born as Denes Magda in 1924 and died in Cary, NC in 2019. She grew up in a warm, rich and cultured home within a vibrant Jewish community in Misckolc, the second largest city in Hungary. As the daughter of a successful local director of the power company she was given everything an only daughter could hope for. But from one day to the next, her world crumbled in the face of the rapid spread of fascism in Hungary. Her father was dismissed from his leadership position and sent to a labor camp while Madelaine and her mother were forced to give up their home and move to a small apartment in Budapest. What's remarkable is that at 17 years old she not only purchased false papers to escape the Jewish ghetto, she also obtained papers for her parents and managed to save her mother's life. Sadly her father, whom she adored, and much of her extended family and closest friends could not be saved.
Madelaine’s book offers a different view of the holocaust, offering the day-to-day perspective of a person hiding in plain sight in a major city. What is also unusual is that she managed to keep a diary through the war years, and therefore we can now read what that daily life was like firsthand through the eyes of a teenage girl.
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