Béla Zsolt

This is a translation of the German Wikipedia page http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Zsolt

Before the First World War and whilst still a young man Zsolt was already considered an outstanding representative of the Hungarian Decadence movement. In the tumultuous years of revolution of 1918 and 1919 he was a vehement advocate for a bourgeois-liberal regime and opponent of the soviet republics and Horthy's emerging christian-nationalist corporate state.
In1920 Zsolt moved from Nagyvárad to Budapest where he quickly established himself in literary circles. His articles and novels gained general recognition. Like thousands of other Hungarian Jews in the Second World War Béla Zsolt was a forced labourer for the Ukrainian army on the Ukrainian eastern front. His wife was able to secure his return to Hungary where, however, he was soon afterwards imprisoned in Budapest's infamous Margarethenring Prison. Using a false name he went underground in the Grosswardein ghetto. Zsolt depicts his experiences at the front, in the ghetto and his adventurous rescue from deportation in summer 1944 in his novel Nine Suitcases. His wife was rescued with him, his in-laws and wife's daughter from her first marriage were transported to Auschwitz where they were killed.
As part of the 'Kasztner Agreement' Zsolt's freedom, along with that of a thousand other Hungarian Jews, was bought from the Nazis. He spent the second half of 1944 in Bergen Belsen with his wife awaiting emigration. The move to Switzerland followed in December.
Following his return to Hungary in 1945 Zsolt founded the Radikale Bürgerliche Partei (Radical Bourgeois Party), whose newspaper Haladás (Progress) he edited. Zsolt was elected to the Hungarian parliament at his second attempt. He did not live to see the ultimate seizure of power by the communists. Béla Zsolt died in 1949 following a serious illness.