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Judit Zapor: _Laura Polanyi 1882-1957: Narratives of a Life_: ‘Although we have no way of confirming the actual steps she had taken, it seems that Laura Polanyi had been instrumental in her daughter [Eve]`s eventual release [from the Soviet GULAG]... 1/
...no small feat, given the times and circumstances. As an unintended by-product, Eva Striker's imprisonment served as the inspiration for her childhood friend, Arthur Koestler`s novel, _Darkness at Noon_. The series of subsequent dramatic events included Laura Polanyi's... 2/
...own arrest by the Gestapo in Vienna in the aftermath of the Anschluss, and ended with her eventual success in helping her three children, her seventy-year-old husband, numerous nephews, nieces and friends to reach America. The one tragic failure concerned her younger... 3/
...sister, Sophie, who, with her husband and two of their three children, perished in concentration camps… ' 4/END

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