In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust

EugenePogany'sfatheranduncle,identicaltwins,wereborninHungaryofJewishparentsbutraisedbythemasdevoutCatholicconvertsuntilWorldWarIIunraveledtheirfamily.Miklos,theauthor'sfather,wassenttoBergen-Belsen,ahellthatledhimtodenounceChristianpassivityinthefaceoftheHolocaustandreturntotheJudaismofhisbirth.Gyorgy,aCatholicpriest,wasshelteredfromthewarinanItalianmonasterybytherenownedandsaintlyfriarPadrePio.Theirmother,alsointernedasaJew,walkedintotheAuschwitzgaschamberholdingacrucifixtoherbreast.InMyBrother'sImageeloquentlyportrayshowtheHolocaustdestroyedthesebrothers'closechildhoodbond.Eachbelievingtheotheratraitortotheirfamily'sfaith,theyremainedestrangedevenafteremigratingtoAmerica,wheretheylivedandworkedonlymilesfromeachother.FilledwithextraordinaryscenessuchasMiklos'sPassovercelebrationwithfellowprisonersinthecamp,thistragicmemoirencapsulatesthedramaofafamilytornapartbythehistoricalrupturebetweenJewsandCatholics--evenasittrainsawider,impartiallensonitscausesandonthehistoryofHungary'sJews.--ThistextreferstotheHardcoveredition.