The Nazis took everything from my mother’s family. What good would reparations do?
From The Washington Post
Margaret McMullan received an NEA fellowship and a Fulbright to research and teach in Hungary for a new book “Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return.“
In 2011, I spent five months in the small town of Pécs, Hungary, on a Fulbright grant to research my Jewish Hungarian relatives, most of whom died in the Holocaust. When people from Pécs found out that my great-great-grandfather was the wealthy Adolf Engel de Jánosi, a leading industrialist and philanthropist who lived there in the late 19th century, they asked if I had come for restitution. “Have you come to take what’s yours?” they’d say.
I had not.
