Agnes Kaposi was born in Hungary the year before Hitler came to
power and started school at the outbreak of World War II. The
Holocaust killed many of her family, together with half a million
Hungarian Jews, but a series of miracles and coincidences allowed
her to survive. She worked as a child labourer in the agricultural
and armament camps of Austria and was liberated by a rampaging
Soviet army. She struggled through post-war hardship to re-enter
Hungarian society, only to be caught up for a decade in the vice of
Stalinism. In 1956 a bloody revolution offered the opportunity to
escape to Britain, a country of freedom and tolerance, where she
started a family and built a career as a ground-breaking electrical
engineering teacher and consultant. Dr Kaposi writes with
compassion and optimism, without self-pity. The tone is light, and
there is plenty of irony, even humour. The narrative is underscored
by the historian László Csősz and illustrated by several maps
and more than a hundred archival images and family photographs.
General
Imprint: |
i2i Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2020 |
Authors: |
Agnes Kaposi
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Dimensions: |
237 x 191 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
302 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-916106-68-0 |
Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
LSN: |
1-916106-68-4 |
Barcode: |
9781916106680 |
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