| Interviewee | BRENNER Sr., Joseph Andrew (b. 1935) |
| Interview ID # | OH 1696 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | 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. |
| Interviewer(s) | Debbie Liles |
| Physical Description | 59 pp. plus documents (3 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
