Budaliget 1943: A small village on the edge of Budapest. Three young women and a man, artists and close friends are gathered together in the uneasy days before Hitler's armies would destroy the world as they knew it. Seeking spiritual knowledge, and anticipating the horrors of Nazi-occupied Hungary, they met regularly to discuss how to find their own inner paths to enlightenment. One June afternoon, the meeting is disrupted when Hanna calls out, "Be careful, it is no longer I who speak!" Her friends do not recognize her voice now or later, when she speaks in other voices, each directing a specific message to one of the four. For 17 months, with the world locked in a deadly struggle for survival, the four friends meet every week with the spiritual beings they come to call their "angels"; Gitta Mallasz takes notes, the protocols which form this book, along with her commentary. The angels' message of personal responsibility is as meaningful and as urgent today as it was for its initial recipients half a century ago. I am deeply touched by the dialogues with the angels. - Yehudi Menuhin I could read it over and over again and never get tired of it. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this book with me. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross I feel as though the message of the angels were especially intended for me. It places me in touch with Truth and enables me to hear the call more clearly. The angels teach me how to view the world through the inner smile. - Narciso Yepes

Autorentext

Gitta Mallasz always rejected any notion of 'authorship' for this book, saying, "I am merely the 'scribe' of the angels." Born in 1907 in Austria, she arrived at age 15 in Budapest, where she gained fame as a champion swimmer. She went on to study art and subsequently pursued a successful career as a graphic artist. In 1960, she emigrated to Paris where, after years of silence, the story of this extraordinary encounter was finally published. The original Hungarian documentation has been translated into numerous languages, touching hundreds of thousands of readers. Gitta Mallasz died in 1992.

Klappentext

The true story of four young Hungarians seeking inner direction at a time of outer upheaval, the holocaust. The intense experience depicted in this book provides them with new direction and hope. In the darkest hours of World War II, these friends, three of them Jewish, seek orientation and meaning in their shattered lives. During seventeen months, one of them, Hanna Dallos, delivers oral messages which Gitta Mallasz and Lili Strausz record in their notebooks. These messages, or teachings as they came to be known, end abruptly with the deportation of Hanna and Lili to Ravensbrück in December of 1944. Gitta Mallasz, the only survivor of the quartet, first published the notes in France in 1976. The dialogues document an extraordinary light-filled spiritual resistance in the midst of Nazi darkness and barbarous cruelty. Hanna Dallos and Gitta Mallasz, both born in 1907, became friends at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest. Together with Hanna's husband, Joszef Kreutzer, they later established what became a successful graphic arts atelier. The three were soon joined by movement therapist Lili Strausz. The dialogues presented in this document took place between June of 1943 and November of 1944 in Budaliget and Budapest.Hanna and Lili died in Germany during a prisoner transport and Joszef in a Hungarian concentration camp in 1945. Gitta emigrated to Paris in 1960, where she edited and published the record of their experience. This document has subsequently been translated and published in numerous languages throughout the world. Gitta Mallasz died in 1992 in France. Twenty years later, she was honored as a 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Yad Vashem for having saved more than a hundred Jewish women and children. I am very happy to have encountered this book. I am deeply touched by the dialogues with the angels. - Yehudi Menuhin I could read it over and over again and never get tired of it. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this book with me. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross I feel as though the message of the angels were especially intended for me. It places me in touch with Truth and enables me to hear the call more clearly. The angels teach me how to view the world through the inner smile. - Narciso Yepes