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Burning Of The World: A Memoirs Of Bela Zombory-Moldovan

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Stephanie Yens 12-20-2017 Your experiences effect the way you view the world, and for a historian it effects the way you view history. Although most historians try to view history impartially or unbiased some of their views tend to show based on what they chose to focus on as well as how they write about the event. The experiences that individuals tell us about Europe’s ordeal from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s can be understood and viewed in different lenses. Some of the experiences that some of the individuals that I will be discussing could express the turmoil that many Europeans were facing during this time, as well as express the way others viewed Europe and the way Europe’s ordeal was affecting the world around it. The experiences …show more content…

He was born in Munkacs, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. His passion was involved, being a painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Bela Zombory- Moldovan was on a holiday trip when the First World War Broke out. He was drafted by the army on his trip, the way the memoir is told you can fell how quickly events moved around the Zombory- Moldovan, he was quickly moved in to the Russian lines . During the war he was badly hurt and then was brought back home, although he was happy and relieved to be back to his family he started facing a new battle within himself. He was suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. The book is told through the perspective of Bela Zombory- Moldovan and how the war changed his world personally and how it effected the world of the people around him. Zombory- Moldovan view of history was affected by the events of his life. The war caused him to view his world differently, one of the passages that struck me directly and I felt fit the effect that his experiences had the way he viewed the world around him and history was in the beginning of the memoir titled, NOVI. Zombory- Moldovan is recounting the thoughts that went through his mind when he saw the report that listed the birthdates of different individuals. He realized that he was supposed to report for service at Vesxprem- with the thirty first regiment of the Royal Hungarian Army by the fourth of August. Zombory- Moldovan account of how he joined the war is completely different to that George Orwell who willingly signed up to join the militia. Although it could be compared and put in contrast to that of Primo Levi’s imprisonment to Auschwitz simply because both men did not have a choice in the mater. It is true that Levi and Zombory- Moldovan experiences are completely different but they both had to work hard to survive their

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