Vali Rácz’s song was played at the Wight Bear pub in Southbourne

One of Vali Rácz’s songs was played by Vali’s grandson, Adam Porter at a music session at the Wight Bear pub in Southbourne on July 7, 2024. The song that was played is Halló! Miért nem jött ma el? (Hallo! […]

Updated edition of Deadly Carousel released

Deadly Carousel, Monica Porter’s book about her mother’s heroic rescue of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, has just been re-published by Lume Books in a new, updated edition as an e-book. Also available as a POD paperback from the end of March 2021. […]

Carved in marble

I had wanted to visit Israel for many years. But somehow I could never find the opportunity. As I grew older, my health deteriorated, and it seemed less and less likely with each passing year that I would ever go. […]

A hidden heroine

Monica Porter gets to know her mother by taking an enlightening journey into her wartime past MY MOTHER was 41 years old when I was born, so there was a double “generation gap” between us. I grew up in the […]