Tibor will present stories of his family’s experiences as Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust. His mother, Manci, was deported from a ghetto in rural Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was moved to an industrial slave labor camp and ultimately was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration near Hannover, Germany. His father, Michael, was processed through Auschwitz and worked in forced labor camps before being liberated from Dachau, near Munich, Germany. He lost all his immediate family, including his first wife and two young daughters. Tibor’s Uncle Alex, his mother’s youngest brother, thirteen years of age at the beginning of the war, witnessed the devastation of his family and survived a whirlwind of farm and industrial forced labor camps before being liberated from an Austrian factory camp. With family photos, maps and other illustrations, their stories and the stories of other family members Tibor will put human faces on historical events and provide a perspective on the Holocaust that transcends sterile renditions of dates, events and statistics.
Tibor was born in Hungary in 1954 and emigrated to the United States with his parents, older brother, and other family members in December of 1956, shortly after Hungarian Revolution. They settled in Indianapolis. Tibor has served as a volunteer speaker for the Bureau of Jewish Education’s Holocaust Education Center of Indiana since 2013.
Reflections of a Well Rewarded Holocaust Education Speaker
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