How I Survived the Holocaust in Hungary
Born in Hungary in 1932, Agnes survived the Debrecen ghetto and, after her transport to Auschwitz was diverted due to an administrative error, she worked as a child laborer in the agricultural and armament labor camps of Austria. She returned to Hungary and lived under the Stalinist communist regime.
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Agnes Kaposi MBE is an engineer and Holocaust survivor. In 1956, she graduated from the Technical University of Budapest with a degree in electrical /electronic engineering. After the 1956 Uprising against Communist rule, she escaped from her native Hungary and obtained a labor permit to work in England as an industrial researcher in the Telecommunication and Computer industries. She obtained a PhD in Computer Aided Design and worked as a lecturer, researcher and consultant in academic institutions and in the Telecommunication and Computer Industries in Britain. In 2020 she published her autobiography Yellow Star-Red Star. She was appointed MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to Holocaust Education and Awareness.
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