The Diplomat
The Hungarian Embassy presented last Monday at the Centro Sefarad-Israel in Madrid the book Los Papeles Secretos de Pape, by Alexandra Ciniglio.
The presentation was attended by Katalin Tóth, ambassador of Hungary; Jaime Moreno, director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel; Alexandra Ciniglio, author of the book, and Eva Leitman-Bohrer, whose family history is collected in this work. The book tells the story of the family of Eva-Leitman Bohrer, a survivor living in Madrid. The German ambassador, Maria Margarete Gosse, also attended.
This event marks the end of the large number of events, almost 70, that the Hungarian Embassy has organized during its six-month term as President of the Council of Europe.
As we reported in The Diplomat last December 10, it was 2017 in Madrid, Eva Leitman-Bohrer vacated the apartment of her recently deceased father when she found, inside an old safe, a detailed archive with all kinds of papers, certificates, passports, Letters and photographs. He knew immediately that they were the clues to reconstruct his and his family’s history, one that his parents never told him. At the age of 72, he began working with the help of journalist Alexandra Ciniglio, who with her investigative skills managed to decipher the path between Budapest and Madrid, passing through Tangier and also through Mauthausen, the death camp.
