Asszony A Fronton by Alaine Polcz

Hungary, 1944-1945

A harrowing wartime memoir that follows a young Hungarian woman in Transylvania as the Eastern Front overruns her life, forcing her into makeshift medical work, displacement, and the relentless threat and reality of sexual violence. In spare, unsentimental detail, it traces the daily logistics of survival—hunger, disease, and coerced intimacy—while capturing fleeting compassion amid pervasive brutality. The narrative culminates in a sober reckoning with trauma, memory, and the struggle to reclaim dignity after the guns fall silent.