{"title":"Anna Porter","description":"Anna Porter was born in Hungary and personally experienced the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. A celebrated former publisher in Toronto, she is the author of five previous books published only in Canada, including The Storyteller, a memoir of her family through seven centuries of Hungarian history. She lives in Toronto.","products":[{"product_id":"kasztners-train-the-true-story-of-an-unknown-hero-of-the-holocaust-paperback","title":"Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn March, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary, followed soon after by Adolf Eichmann and his SS Sondercommando. His single goal was to eliminate the entire Jewish population of the country. Rezso Kasztner-a lawyer and Zionist activist-stood in his way. In meeting after meeting with Eichman and other Nazis, he sought common ground, exploiting their twin weaknesses of greed and fear, in the process saving thousands of lives. \u003ci\u003eKasztner's Train\u003c\/i\u003e-a reference to the famous train ride to freedom he organized-tells this dramatic story for the first time, including a shocking postscript. After the war, Kasztner emigrated to Israel, where in 1956 he was stunningly convicted of collaborating with the Nazis more than a decade before. As he awaited the appeal that would ultimately exonerate him, he was murdered by right-wing activists in Tel Aviv on March 4, 1957. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHungarian by birth, Anna Porter lived through the Hungarian Revolution as a child, and brings to this book a determination and passion to tell the full story of one of the heroes of the 20th century.\u003ci\u003e Kasztner's Train\u003c\/i\u003e is based on interviews with survivors who were on the train, and with family members of other survivors, as well as with descendants of those murdered in concentration camps.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433658286303,"sku":"9780802717412","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8zfVCU-AnJ9780802717412.webp?v=1790016767"},{"product_id":"buying-a-better-world-george-soros-and-billionaire-philanthropy-paperback","title":"Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote democracy around the world. Morton Abramowitz of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace once said that Soros was \"the only private citizen with his own foreign policy.\"\u003cbr\u003e Anna Porter has interviewed Soros, his senior staff, journalists, politicians, and many others in an attempt to understand the man. Each person has a unique story to tell. Focusing on the last decade, she explores how Soros's Open Society Foundations have spread his ideas of human rights, democracy, Western liberalism, and participatory capitalism around the globe. These are the ideas Soros has said he considers worth dying for. How have they translated into reality? What will his legacy be?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67942673744095,"sku":"9781459731035","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cc5hkJoSB89781459731035.webp?v=1791445936"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/anna-porter.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}