It is autumn 1944, the war days are critical in the Hungarian capital, right-wingers are taking power and intensifying the persecution of Jews, the Allies are bombing the city, the Russians are approaching, all sorts of rumors are circulating; street shootings, the roar of cannons, alarms, cold and hunger, fear and general insecurity… A lonely forty-year-old Osijek man, Alfred Fischer, a Jew, a lawyer by profession, humanist and pacifist, an emigrant in that city for the fourth year, keeps a diary during those months and writes down his fears for himself and his family with whom he shares the fate of refugees. Along with all this he manages to write down serious political thoughts about the future of the Balkan nations after the imminent defeat of the Nazis in the war, and tries to think optimistically about himself as a free man again.
The promotion of this edition will also be attended by Alfred Fischer's son, a well-known Osijek resident, Darko Fischer, as well as the translator of the book into Hungarian, Ana Lehocki Samardžić, associate professor at the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek.
Promotion moderator: Matej Sakač, head of the library of the Evangelical Theological Seminary Osijek