Author’s NotePART I FAMILY Goodbye Hope and PrayerInduction Fresh Start Sheep Farm Private Practice Fortunate Son WinterA Gilded Life In the Company of Guards Downtown Home Unwanted Return to Camp Occupation Alone Twenty-five Kilos PART II IT’S BETTER NOT TO KNOW Retreat Marching On Escape On the Run Hunting Season Under the Bed Captured Pink Robe Mathiasfold And They Marched OnHomecoming PART III FROM YELLOW STAR Sheets of Gold Quick EscapeUnder the Dark Skies Judit Two Weddings Dark and Getting Darker A Broken Man Revolution Not a Real Enemy Second Thoughts Stranger on a Train Freedom Epilogue Acknowledgments Amsterdam Publishers Holocaust LibraryThe true story of Ervin Wolf as the fascist tide of Eastern Europe takes hold of Hungary. From the Wolfs' upper-class life to imprisonment, it is a tale of tragedy and ultimately, triumph.Hungary, 1944. Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the outside world and forced to endure inhumane brutalities and servitude. Once freed, a new oppression took hold as communist rule under Stalin turned friends to foes, enveloped the nation in fear and suspicion, and tested everyone’s character and strength.This is the true story of Ervin Wolf and his family as the fascist tide of Eastern Europe takes hold of Hungary. From the Wolfs’ comfortable upper-class life to imprisonment, daring escapes, tragic deaths, cloak-and-dagger adventures, and Ervin’s final escape to freedom in the dead of night, Not a Real Enemy is a page-turning tale of suspense, tragedy, comedy, and ultimately, triumph.Hungary, 1944. Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the outside world and forced to endure inhumane brutalities and servitude. Once freed, a new oppression took hold as communist rule under Stalin turned friends to foes, enveloped the nation in fear and suspicion, and tested everyone’s character and strength.This is the true story of Ervin Wolf and his family as the fascist tide of Eastern Europe takes hold of Hungary. From the Wolfs’ comfortable upper-class life to imprisonment, daring escapes, tragic deaths, cloak-and-dagger adventures, and Ervin’s final escape to freedom in the dead of night, Not a Real Enemy is a page-turning tale of suspense, tragedy, comedy, and ultimately, triumph.