In Parliament On Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Nicholas Gage, the Greek-born American writer and journalist.

Nicholas Gage’s most famous book, “Eleni”, was recently published in Hungarian. In the book Gage recounts the tragedy of his father, Eleni Gatzoyiannis, and pieces together the true story of his family’s escape from the Greek Civil War. In 1948,  in the village of Lia near the Albanian border, his mother was executed by the partisans for trying to rescue her children from the camps behind the Iron Curtain and take them to their father in America.

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The book will be the subject of an official presentation event in Budapest on Wednesday.

(Prime Minister's Office)