As a Hungarian-Jewish family grows from poor beginnings to positions of power and fortune, their tale is told over three generations. When his government authorizes anti-Jewish persecutions, the patriarch, who rises to prominence as a judge, is torn. His son becomes a champion fencer and Olympic hero after converting to Christianity, but he gets caught up in the Holocaust. This realization finally dawns on the grandson after he has been through wars, revolutions and betrayals.
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As a Hungarian-Jewish family grows from poor beginnings to positions of power and fortune, their tale is told over three generations. When his government authorizes anti-Jewish persecutions, the patriarch, who rises to prominence as a judge, is torn. His son becomes a champion fencer and Olympic hero after converting to Christianity, but he gets caught up in the Holocaust. This realization finally dawns on the grandson after he has been through wars, revolutions and betrayals.
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