Eugene Pogany's father and uncle, identical twins, were bornin Hungary of Jewish parents but raised by them as devout Catholicconverts until World War II unraveled their family. Miklos, theauthor's father, was sent to Bergen-Belsen, a hell that led him todenounce Christian passivity in the face of the Holocaust andreturn to the Judaism of his birth. Gyorgy, a Catholic priest, wassheltered from the war in an Italian monastery by the renowned andsaintly friar Padre Pio. Their mother, also interned as a Jew,walked into the Auschwitz gas chamber holding a crucifix to herbreast. In My Brother's Image eloquently portrays how the Holocaustdestroyed these brothers' close childhood bond. Each believing theother a traitor to their family's faith, they remained estrangedeven after emigrating to America, where they lived and worked onlymiles from each other. Filled with extraordinary scenes such asMiklos's Passover celebration with fellow prisoners in the camp,this tragic memoir encapsulates the drama of a f
