"I made two trips to Hungary, and I met with academicians, historians, survivors, an towns people, and I was helped greatly by people who translated for you." Communal violence "Why did those neighbors behave the way they did? Why didn't the state protect the Jews? I really wanted to do a deep dive into the moral and economic complexity."Ĭycon's quest for answers led him to Hungary and to many conversations, including with Holocaust survivors and their families in Europe, as well as in the U.S., and transcripts of survivors' testimonies. He also wanted to try and answer many troubling questions. In the midst of his research, the characters of Eva and her fellow survivors were born. How do people now know about this?" A quilt of storiesĬycon had been working on drafts of other novels, but decided to put them aside. From 1945 to 1947, there were a number of these incidents. "How did I not know that? So, I started to do more research on it, and I found it wasn't a one-off incident. They come home, only to be murdered by their neighbors," Cycon said. They managed to survived, lost their loved ones. These people spent years in a concentration camp.
Cycon said, "People got angry that the Jews would try to take their houses back."įear and anger sometimes turned to violence. Someone else was living there."įrequently, a Jewish person would find their goods and property confiscated, and someone else living in their houses. "I came across this article about people who returned to their houses in Poland. "I was researching early Jewish trade routes in Eastern Europe," Cycon said. When everything is taken awayĬycon is no stranger to writing, having authored "Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee."īut in retirement, Cycon decided to tell the story of Holocaust survivors, by giving telling many of their stories through a work of fiction. The novel was released in June by Köehler Books.Ĭycon recently retired from the company, now in its 30th year, and which he started after his career as an attorney specializing in environmental law and indigenous rights. Her journey is at the center of "Finding Home (Hungary, 1945,) a novel by Dean Cycon, of Orange, known widely as founder of Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Company.
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