Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Linda Ambrus Broenniman, Author, “The Politzer Saga”

 

About Harvey's guest:

 

Today’s guest, Linda Ambrus Broenniman, has quite a fascinating and important story to tell.  She and her 6 siblings were raised by her parents, Julian and Clare Ambrus, who were highly respected doctors in Buffalo, New York.  

 

Although she and her siblings were given very few details of her family history, she knew that her parents had immigrated to America from Hungary in 1949, and her paternal grandmother came from Hungary to live with them in 1956.  And she knew that her parents were Catholic, and that’s how she was raised.   

 

Then, in 1983, at the age of 27, she learned, quite by accident, that her father and his family were Jewish.   And then a miracle happened.  Following a house fire in 2011, a box full of important documents and photographs, that had been hidden away, somehow survived.  The contents of that box launched our guest on a quest – an intensive search to uncover her family history, through a meticulous and arduous process of examining gravestones, newspaper ads and a myriad of government, school and synagogue records.  

 

Her search for the truth, beginning in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1700’s, ultimately allowed her to piece together the astonishing saga of her Jewish ancestors – the Politzer family – a family of doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, writers, musicians, art collectors, and philanthropists.  She learned of their remarkable struggles, bravery and resilience in surviving religious persecution, wars, epidemics, economic upheavals, and of course, the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany in World War 2.  

 

Our guest has written a compelling book, entitled “The Politzer Saga”, which not only honours the memories of her lost family and shows us how finding our roots can help anchor your own place in the world.   But more importantly, she’s illuminated the history of the Jewish community in Hungary over 300 years, showing us the destructive power of hatred, dehumanization, and injustice - a powerful story encompassing issues that, sadly, still resonate today.  

 

The Politzer Saga is also the subject of a permanent Exhibit which was launched in August 2021 at the Rumbach Synagogue in Budapest.

 

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https://politzersaga.com/

 

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