Speaking of Marton: Kati Marton’s Tribute to Nine Hungarian Jews

THE GREAT ESCAPE: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World – the physicists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner and John von Neumann; the author Arthur Koestler; the photographers Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz; and the filmmakers Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz.
From the book:
1. “Hungarians are the only people in Europe without racial or linguistic relatives in Europe, therefore they are the loneliest on this continent. This… perhaps explains the peculiar intensity of their existence… Hopeless solitude feeds their creativity, their desire for achieving… To be Hungarian is a collecitve neurosis” – Arthur Koestler
2. One could argue that, in fact, they were even triple outsiders, since they were all non-observant Jews whose families had consciously rejected the “shtetl” for the modern, secular, cosmopolitan world that, briefly, lay glistening in front of them.
PM: No, no relation, if not one of spirit.