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"A Hungarian Jew Looks Back: A Personal Account of the Pre-World War II Times and the War Years"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503640
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains a memoir written circa 1992, with information about Robert Winkler's childhood; family experiences and national events in Hungary during the war years; the German occupation of 1944; Winkler's forced labor in Hungary; escape and capture; forced service with a Gestapo unit; re-escape and "passing" with false identification as a Hungarian gentile; service as a "gentile" in the Hungarian army; liberation by the Red Army. Also included is a postscript with information about the subsequent fate of some of the people mentioned in the memoir.
Robert and Jolán Winkler memoirs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519443
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains a two-page summary of Robert Winkler's memoir "A Hungarian Jew Looks Back: A Personal Account of the Pre-World War II Times and the War Years" (see 1993.A.0037). Also contains a four-page memoir written by Jolán Winkler, describing her childhood and family life in Senec, Czechoslovakia; her wartime experiences in Budapest while living under false papers; her first husband's experiences as a forced laborer, his escape, and his time in a "Glass House" in Budapest; and her postwar experiences including the death of her first husband in a work accident, and coming to the United States ...