Review: George Eisen. A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2023. 379 pages.

The Holocaust began after the accession of the Nazis to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, and it ended on May 8, 1945, with the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. But it has taken years for scholarship to begin to fathom the extent and contours of the Holocaust. New parts of the Holocaust are being exposed, analyzed, and written about now. Dr. George Eisen, an American scholar of Hungarian Jewish origin, has published one of the most interesting of these new books. It is called A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust. It tells the story of a little-known curtain-raiser to the genocide of the Hungarian Jews.