"A Hungarian Jew Looks Back: A Personal Account of the Pre-World War II Times and the War Years"

Identifier
irn503640
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0037
  • RG-02.074.01
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503640

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Creator(s)

  • Robert Winkler

Biographical History

Robert Winkler, who was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1924, is a survivor of the Holocaust.

Archival History

Mr. Robert Winkler

Acquisition

Mr. Winkler sent a copy to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jan. 1993, and it was routed to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.

Scope and Content

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.

People

  • Winkler, Robert.
  • Nagy, Joseph.
  • Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.
  • Robert Winkler

Corporate Bodies

  • Germany. Gestapo
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
  • Nyilaskeresztes Párt

Subjects

Genre

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