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Gratitude by Joseph Kertes Sale Books compelled to seek overseas theMarch 1944: Wars darkest period descends upon Hungarys Jews. By the time it ends in January 1945, over half a million Jews will have been murdered. Gratitude tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost. At the center of it all is Paul Beck, a young lawyer whose chance meeting with a visiting Swede, Raoul Wallenberg, may alter the inevitability of the Jews fate. Like The Garden