Author: SCHIMMEL, BETTY (WITH JOYCE GABRIEL)
Title: To See You Again - a True Story of Love in a Time of War
Description: London, Simon and Schuster. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0684858053). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The true story of Betty Schimmel and the two loves of her life. The first is her childhood from Hungary, Richie, and they would meet after curfew in the ruins of a castle overlooking Budapest, during the Nazi occupation. They were separated during the final months of occupation when Betty and her family were sent on a death march through Hungary to the notorious concentration camp at Mauthausen in Austria. Miraculously, they survived, but suffered immense cruelty and misery at the hands of the Nazis. Betty was liberated from the camp, half dead from typhoid fever, and her first priority was to find her beloved Richie, spending many months looking for him in the post-war meltdown, eventually, after much grieving and soul searching she gave him up for dead and married Otto, a fellow death camp survivor. Nearly three decades later, when she visited Budapest for the first time since the war, she encountered Richie again, who told her that he had never stopped loving her and had waited 15 years in the hope of finding her before marrying. D4C. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Second World War, Hungary, Mauthausen Concentration Camp Austria 0684858053


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