Browsing the archives for the persecution tag
Browsing the archives for the persecution tag
In yesterday’s blog, I shared a little of my family history (refugees and Holocaust survivors) and discussed the interesting issue of how our survival instincts allow us to accept persecution. Today I wish to further clarify this issue of the biology of persecution, and to share more of my thoughts as I toured the Torture [...]
Today we visited the “Terror Museum” in Budapest. It’s housed in the former offices and torture headquarters of the Fascist Party (WWII) and the Hungarian communist “KGB” (1945-1990). As half my family are Hungarian refugees (the other half are Polish refugees), I came to Budapest to explore my roots and see whether ancestral memories or [...]