ABSTRACT
Surveys of Hungarian Holocaust literature start, and sometimes end, with Imre Kertész, the 2002 Nobel Prize winner, whose breakthrough 1975 work Fatelessness was the most remarkable in a flourishing of pointed accounts of the Jewish tragedy in the 1970s. 1 The scholarly consensus, both in Hungary and abroad, is encapsulated by the dean of historians of the Hungarian Holocaust, Randolph L. Braham: after taking power, the communist government “soon began an assault on the memory of the Holocaust . . . like the ‘Jewish Question’ in general, [it was] for many decades sunk in an Orwellian black hole of history.” 2
