二戰(zhàn)即將結(jié)束之際，納粹將匈牙利猶太人用火車轉(zhuǎn)運(yùn)到其他集中營途中被美國人解救的故事。Goodreads上的這個書評很有意思，也許有些刻薄，但也道出了自己的一些疑惑，記下來：

"How do you tell a story of the Holocaust when  the subject was just 6 years old when it ended? When those memories are indistinct and questionable.

You call it 'fiction' and move it to the perspective of his brother, who protected him and helped him survive.

The real history of this story is the liberation of a death train and the American who saved them. They say, very straightforwardly- they thought that the descriptions were just anti Nazi propaganda... until they opened the death train. 

Not a 'good' book, but an important one."

作者在介紹中曾經(jīng)提到這段歷史有些細(xì)節(jié)已無跡可尋，這讓我非常疑惑，于是在網(wǎng)上簡單搜了一下相關(guān)歷史背景：1945.4.7 蘇聯(lián)軍隊(duì)到達(dá)之前，納粹將匈牙利的猶太人用三列火車從Bergen-Belsen 集中營運(yùn)往Theredienstadt集中營，幾天后途徑Magdeburg時被美國軍隊(duì)解救。（The Bergen-Belsen/Farsleben Train）

匈牙利二戰(zhàn)期間曾是德國的幫兇，二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束后又被蘇聯(lián)占領(lǐng)加入社會主義陣營，1956匈牙利革命、1989由匈牙利人民共和國更名為匈牙利共和國，2004加入歐盟，2013與納粹結(jié)盟的前匈牙利領(lǐng)袖霍爾蒂（Miklós Horthy）的雕像重被矗立在布達(dá)佩斯城內(nèi)。

延伸閱讀：馬頓（Kati Marton）自傳《布達(dá)佩斯往事》（Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America)提到匈牙利政治上存在兩大禁忌：猶太大屠殺和1956十月抗?fàn)帯?/span>