OH 1696 | Oral History

OH 1696

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Hungarian-American immigrant to Weatherford, Texas. Family history; childhood and education in Budapest, Hungary; career as a tool and die machinist; father’s service in German Luftwaffe; memories of Soviet Army entering Budapest in 1945; involvement with brothers in anti-Soviet and anti-Communist resistance movements; capture by Hungarian political police and subsequent torture; sentence in Soviet work camp; escape across Austrian border; immigration to U.S.; career as a tool and die machinist in auto industry, welder, and maintenance man in several locations throughout U.S.; decision to settle with wife and family in Weatherford; efforts to maintain connections with family in Hungary; process of earning citizenship; coping with memories of torture.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 59 pp. plus documents (3 pp.)
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Debbie Liles
Date of Interview November 3, 2009

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