Resist, Endure, Escape: Growing Up in Nazi and Communist Hungary

In this touching and personal memoir, Susan F. Darvas tells a story of the love that helped her and her family survive the horrors and privations of World War II in Hungary and its aftermath under Soviet rule. With the support of family and friends, Susan and her husband made a daring escape that eventually brought them to England and the United States.
The memoir is “intensely personal, revealing, and candid,” says Bill Benson, host of the First Person program, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Darvas shares herself throughout, from her fears, hardships, frustrations and pain, to her hopes, dreams, joys, small and large, and her loves, familial and romantic.”
Brad Sachs, Ph.D., psychologist and best-selling author, calls it “...a brave and compelling narrative.” The author has “transformed her experience into a unique and insightful testament that reminds us that fear and pain, no matter how profound, can never erode the inherent and essential truth that lies at the core of our being.”