Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz in the summer of 1944, but a largely overlooked chapter is a prequel to those gas chambers: The face-to-face mass murder of Hungarian Jews in the summer of 1941.

Dr. George Eisen, author of A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust ($39.99/Purdue University Press) will examine these atrocities on Tuesday, April 23, at 2 pm in a presentation at the Ocean Pines Branch of the Worcester County Library.