The book Determined by Benjamin Balshone — Marianne’s second husband — tells the true story of Marianne and her family’s survival in war-ravaged Hungary. Marianne's experience in Budapest during the Holocaust, as well as the experience of a dozen different friends, has been captured in the book.
Balshone was a writer, a pharmacist, and an American-born Jew, who's family emigrated to the United States well before the Holocaust. The experience of his European-Jewish wife, and the horrors of the experiences her family members went through, were both very foreign and very real to him.
The book Determined can be found in hard copy used on Amazon, and we have also reissued a digital version for free. Click here to download a free digital copy of Determined.