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RG-02.072 Memories of a Vanished World by Joseph Soski, 1991<br />

USHMM, <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Advanced</strong> <strong>Holocaust</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> � 181<br />

In this memoir, Joseph Soski describes his childhood in Busko and Kraków, Poland, the<br />

German occupation of Kraków, restrictions against Jews, his escape <strong>to</strong> the Sovie<strong>to</strong>ccupied<br />

zone of Poland, his life in the Częs<strong>to</strong>chowa ghet<strong>to</strong>, his experiences as a <strong>for</strong>ced<br />

laborer, his deportation <strong>to</strong> Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau, his evacuation from Dora-<br />

Mittelbau, his liberation, his life in a displaced persons camp, and his emigration <strong>to</strong> the<br />

United States.<br />

Provenance: Source of acquisition is Joseph Soski.<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: <strong>English</strong><br />

0.75 linear inches<br />

Restrictions: Materials protected under copyright<br />

RG-02.073 Katalin Karpati Testimony, 1978, 1992<br />

In this testimony, Katalin Karpati (named Ka<strong>to</strong> Nagy be<strong>for</strong>e and during the <strong>Holocaust</strong>)<br />

describes her childhood in Hungary; her marriage and family life; the German occupation<br />

of Hungary in 1944 and the subsequent hardships <strong>for</strong> Jews; her experiences in a number<br />

of camps, including Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Nordhausen, and Mauthausen; her<br />

liberation and return <strong>to</strong> Hungary; and her escape from Hungary <strong>to</strong> the United States after<br />

the 1956 uprising.<br />

Provenance: Source of acquisition is Katalin Karpati.<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: <strong>English</strong><br />

1 folder<br />

RG-02.074 ―A Hungarian Jew Looks Back: A Personal Account of the Pre–World War<br />

II Times and the War Years‖ by Robert Winkler, unknown date<br />

In his memoir, Robert Winkler discusses his childhood and family experiences, national<br />

events in Hungary during the war years, the German occupation of 1944, his experiences<br />

as a <strong>for</strong>ced laborer, his escape and capture, his <strong>for</strong>ced service with a Gestapo unit, his reescape<br />

and experiences posing as a Hungarian gentile with false identification papers, his<br />

service as a ―gentile‖ in the Hungarian army, and his liberation by the Red Army. Also<br />

included is a postscript with in<strong>for</strong>mation about the subsequent fate of some of the people<br />

mentioned in the memoir.<br />

Provenance: Source of acquisition is Robert Winkler.<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: <strong>English</strong><br />

0.5 linear inches

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