Ernő Munkácsi

Ernő Munkácsi (7 August 1896 – 1 September 1950) was a Hungarian jurist and writer, general counsel of the Israelite Congregation of Pest, and Director of the Hungarian Jewish Museum. In 1944, during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, he was forced by the Nazis, along with other leaders of Budapest's Jewish community, to serve as secretary for the Hungarian Jewish Council or Judenrat. Born in what is today Panticeu, Romania — at the time Páncélcseh, Austria-Hungary — Ernő Munkácsi was a son of the distinguished Hungarian linguist and ethnographer Bernát Munkácsi (1860–1937) and grandson of the Hebrew memoirist Me’ir (Adolf) Munk (1830–1907). He was also a first cousin once removed of the Hungarian-born Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Munk. Munkácsi is best known today for his 1947 memoir Hogyan történt?, published in English by McGill-Queen's University Press as How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, an influential account of the Holocaust in Hungary that has been widely cited by such leading scholars as Randolph L. Braham. A reviewer of the English translation states, "Munkácsi writes dispassionately at first, describing life as a proud 'Magyar of the Israelite faith' before the aftermath of World War I ushered in a…Citește mai mult

External links Munk-Munkácsi Family Collection, archival photographs, documents, and objects donated by Munkasci and his children, Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár), Budapest. Accessed July 13, 2018.