Magda Denes; Author and Psychoanalyst
NEW YORK — Magda Denes, a psychoanalyst who had just completed a book describing her struggle as a Jewish child in Budapest during World War II, has died at her home in Manhattan. She was 62.
Denes died Saturday after apparently suffering a heart attack or stroke, her family said.
Her second book, “Castles Burning: A Child’s Life in War,” is to be published this month by W.W. Norton. The book recounts her torment as one of the so-called hidden children, estimated to number 10,000 to 100,000, who spent the war in stables, caves and secret rooms.
After the war, she and her mother, grandmother and aunt fled to France and then Cuba before settling in the United States.
In 1976, Denes published her first book, “In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital.”
Denes was a faculty member and supervisor in the psychiatry department at Mt. Sinai Medical Center’s School of Medicine in New York.
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