From Darkness into Light: My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom
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From Darkness into Light: My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom Robert Ratonyi Author (2011)
~EN PB NWISBN: 9781646545452 bzw. 1646545451, vermutlich in Englisch, Fulton Books, Taschenbuch, neu.
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About the AuthorRobert Ratonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, in January 1938, a critical year in world history. In March of that year, Nazi Germany annexed Austria into the Third Reich, signaling Hitler's intent to start WWII by invading Poland in 1939. In November 1938, organized pogroms were carried out throughout Germany and Austria in what is called the Kristallnacht, or the Nights of the Broken Glass, when a hundred Jews were killed, seven thousand Jewish businesses were destroyed, a thousand synagogues were burned, and thirty thousand Jews were deported. Ratonyi's parents saw what was coming to Jews in Hungary and decided not have any more children. As a result, he grew up as a single child, which he always regretted.Hungary became an ally of Germany in 1940, and following that, Ratonyi's early childhood was scarred by fear, upheaval, and loss. He was four years old in 1942 when his father was conscripted into a Jewish labor battalion, and he never saw him again. Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, when he was six years old, and his mother was deported to an Austrian concentration camp. He was forced to wear a yellow star and face the terrors of war and ghetto life without his parents. He survived, thanks to some family members and strangers. He was brought up by his mother who survived and grew up under communist dictatorship.He was a freshman at the Technical University of Budapest when he was caught up in the bloody uprising against the regime in October 1956. After the Russians crushed the Uprising, he managed to escape to Austria and eventually ended up as an immigrant in Canada in February 1957.Once in Montréal, Canada, Robert restarted his life, learned English, worked during the day, and continued his education in an evening engineering program at a local university in the fall of 1957. In 1961 he transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering. While in graduate school, he married his wife, Éva, also a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, and became an American immigrant in 1964. After leaving MIT, Ratonyi worked for General Electric and continued his education in the evening to receive a master's degree in management from Drexel University.The combination of his engineering and business education then catapulted Robert into a successful corporate business career. He left GE and worked for Exxon Enterprises and Xerox Corporation. He moved to Atlanta with his wife and two children in 1978 when he became Vice President of Contel Corporation, now part of Verizon. Subsequent to his corporate career, he formed and managed his own mergers and acquisitions and strategic consulting business.Mr. Ratonyi is the Founding Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta from 2000 to 2002. He is also an Educational Counselor for MIT and interviews high school seniors who apply to MIT.As a child survivor of the Holocaust, he is a regular speaker to middle and high school children and to various adult audiences on behalf of The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum since 2011. He is also a regular speaker on behalf of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust throughout Georgia.
About the AuthorRobert Ratonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, in January 1938, a critical year in world history. In March of that year, Nazi Germany annexed Austria into the Third Reich, signaling Hitler's intent to start WWII by invading Poland in 1939. In November 1938, organized pogroms were carried out throughout Germany and Austria in what is called the Kristallnacht, or the Nights of the Broken Glass, when a hundred Jews were killed, seven thousand Jewish businesses were destroyed, a thousand synagogues were burned, and thirty thousand Jews were deported. Ratonyi's parents saw what was coming to Jews in Hungary and decided not have any more children. As a result, he grew up as a single child, which he always regretted.Hungary became an ally of Germany in 1940, and following that, Ratonyi's early childhood was scarred by fear, upheaval, and loss. He was four years old in 1942 when his father was conscripted into a Jewish labor battalion, and he never saw him again. Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, when he was six years old, and his mother was deported to an Austrian concentration camp. He was forced to wear a yellow star and face the terrors of war and ghetto life without his parents. He survived, thanks to some family members and strangers. He was brought up by his mother who survived and grew up under communist dictatorship.He was a freshman at the Technical University of Budapest when he was caught up in the bloody uprising against the regime in October 1956. After the Russians crushed the Uprising, he managed to escape to Austria and eventually ended up as an immigrant in Canada in February 1957.Once in Montréal, Canada, Robert restarted his life, learned English, worked during the day, and continued his education in an evening engineering program at a local university in the fall of 1957. In 1961 he transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering. While in graduate school, he married his wife, Éva, also a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, and became an American immigrant in 1964. After leaving MIT, Ratonyi worked for General Electric and continued his education in the evening to receive a master's degree in management from Drexel University.The combination of his engineering and business education then catapulted Robert into a successful corporate business career. He left GE and worked for Exxon Enterprises and Xerox Corporation. He moved to Atlanta with his wife and two children in 1978 when he became Vice President of Contel Corporation, now part of Verizon. Subsequent to his corporate career, he formed and managed his own mergers and acquisitions and strategic consulting business.Mr. Ratonyi is the Founding Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta from 2000 to 2002. He is also an Educational Counselor for MIT and interviews high school seniors who apply to MIT.As a child survivor of the Holocaust, he is a regular speaker to middle and high school children and to various adult audiences on behalf of The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum since 2011. He is also a regular speaker on behalf of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust throughout Georgia.
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From Darkness into Light - My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom (1964)
~EN NW EB DLISBN: 9781646545469 bzw. 164654546X, vermutlich in Englisch, Inc. Fulton Books, neu, E-Book, elektronischer Download.
From Darkness into Light: The main title of the book, From Darkness into Light, is a metaphor referring to the most important life-altering event in the author`s life from a totalitarian dictatorship to living in the free world. The subtitle reflects his eyewitness account of events and experiences, captured in five stories, in chronological order, from his birth in 1938 in Budapest, Hungary, to when he is in the United States as twenty-six years old as a married man with a child, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the world`s premier science and engineering institution, and ready to embark on living the American dream. Robert Ratonyi spent the first seven years of his life in an openly anti-Semitic country, suffering the loss of his father and many of his close relatives, uncles, aunts, and cousins, in the Holocaust. He then spent his adolescent years under the hard-core Stalinist communist dictatorship. He was brought up by a single mother, a Holocaust survivor, in a working-class neighborhood. According to contemporary American definition, the family lived in poverty, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck his uneducated and unskilled mother could provide as a manual laborer. As a freshman at the Technical University of Budapest, he participated in a peaceful student march on October 23, 1956, that turned into a bloody uprising against the regime. He was caught up in the uprising, hoping that Hungary could break free out of the `iron curtain` that separated the east from the west. When the Russians put down the revolution, he managed to escape to Austria on December 6, 1956, with no money or other earthly possessions, leaving behind his mother, family, and friends. He was single-mindedly focused on finding a new, free country where he could continue his university education. He went to the American Embassy in Vienna to apply for immigrating to the US but was told that the quota for Hungarian refugees was filled. The Canadians were actively seeking students who wanted to continue their education, and Robert Ratonyi ended up in Montréal, Canada, in February 1957. The last story ends when Robert Ratonyi succeeds in finishing his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. This story demonstrates how an immigrant can become a contributor to society by taking risks, being willing to work hard, delaying gratification, learning English, and getting a good education. He is now semiretired as a portfolio manager and is a regular speaker on behalf of the William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He and his wife live in Atlanta and are fervent supporters of the arts, education, as well as local Jewish organizations. Englisch, Ebook.
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From Darkness into Light (1964)
EN NW EB DLISBN: 9781646545469 bzw. 164654546X, in Englisch, neu, E-Book, elektronischer Download.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock, plus shipping.
The main title of the book, From Darkness into Light, is a metaphor referring to the most important life-altering event in the author’s life from a totalitarian dictatorship to living in the free world. The subtitle reflects his eyewitness account of events and experiences, captured in five stories, in chronological order, from his birth in 1938 in Budapest, Hungary, to when he is in the United States as twenty-six years old as a married man with a child, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the world’s premier science and engineering institution, and ready to embark on living the American dream.Robert Ratonyi spent the first seven years of his life in an openly anti-Semitic country, suffering the loss of his father and many of his close relatives, uncles, aunts, and cousins, in the Holocaust. He then spent his adolescent years under the hard-core Stalinist communist dictatorship. He was brought up by a single mother, a Holocaust survivor, in a working-class neighborhood. According to contemporary American definition, the family lived in poverty, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck his uneducated and unskilled mother could provide as a manual laborer. As a freshman at the Technical University of Budapest, he participated in a peaceful student march on October 23, 1956, that turned into a bloody uprising against the regime. He was caught up in the uprising, hoping that Hungary could break free out of the “iron curtain” that separated the east from the west. When the Russians put down the revolution, he managed to escape to Austria on December 6, 1956, with no money or other earthly possessions, leaving behind his mother, family, and friends. He was single-mindedly focused on finding a new, free country where he could continue his university education. He went to the American Embassy in Vienna to apply for immigrating to the US but was told that the quota for Hungarian refugees was filled. The Canadians were actively seeking students who wanted to continue their education, and Robert Ratonyi ended up in Montréal, Canada, in February 1957.The last story ends when Robert Ratonyi succeeds in finishing his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. This story demonstrates how an immigrant can become a contributor to society by taking risks, being willing to work hard, delaying gratification, learning English, and getting a good education.He is now semiretired as a portfolio manager and is a regular speaker on behalf of the William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He and his wife live in Atlanta and are fervent supporters of the arts, education, as well as local Jewish organizations.
The main title of the book, From Darkness into Light, is a metaphor referring to the most important life-altering event in the author’s life from a totalitarian dictatorship to living in the free world. The subtitle reflects his eyewitness account of events and experiences, captured in five stories, in chronological order, from his birth in 1938 in Budapest, Hungary, to when he is in the United States as twenty-six years old as a married man with a child, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the world’s premier science and engineering institution, and ready to embark on living the American dream.Robert Ratonyi spent the first seven years of his life in an openly anti-Semitic country, suffering the loss of his father and many of his close relatives, uncles, aunts, and cousins, in the Holocaust. He then spent his adolescent years under the hard-core Stalinist communist dictatorship. He was brought up by a single mother, a Holocaust survivor, in a working-class neighborhood. According to contemporary American definition, the family lived in poverty, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck his uneducated and unskilled mother could provide as a manual laborer. As a freshman at the Technical University of Budapest, he participated in a peaceful student march on October 23, 1956, that turned into a bloody uprising against the regime. He was caught up in the uprising, hoping that Hungary could break free out of the “iron curtain” that separated the east from the west. When the Russians put down the revolution, he managed to escape to Austria on December 6, 1956, with no money or other earthly possessions, leaving behind his mother, family, and friends. He was single-mindedly focused on finding a new, free country where he could continue his university education. He went to the American Embassy in Vienna to apply for immigrating to the US but was told that the quota for Hungarian refugees was filled. The Canadians were actively seeking students who wanted to continue their education, and Robert Ratonyi ended up in Montréal, Canada, in February 1957.The last story ends when Robert Ratonyi succeeds in finishing his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. This story demonstrates how an immigrant can become a contributor to society by taking risks, being willing to work hard, delaying gratification, learning English, and getting a good education.He is now semiretired as a portfolio manager and is a regular speaker on behalf of the William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He and his wife live in Atlanta and are fervent supporters of the arts, education, as well as local Jewish organizations.
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From Darkness into Light: My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom Robert Ratonyi Author (1964)
~EN NW EB DLISBN: 9781646545469 bzw. 164654546X, vermutlich in Englisch, Fulton Books, Inc. neu, E-Book, elektronischer Download.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
The main title of the book, From Darkness into Light, is a metaphor referring to the most important life-altering event in the author’s life from a totalitarian dictatorship to living in the free world. The subtitle reflects his eyewitness account of events and experiences, captured in five stories, in chronological order, from his birth in 1938 in Budapest, Hungary, to when he is in the United States as twenty-six years old as a married man with a child, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the world’s premier science and engineering institution, and ready to embark on living the American dream. Robert Ratonyi spent the first seven years of his life in an openly anti-Semitic country, suffering the loss of his father and many of his close relatives, uncles, aunts, and cousins, in the Holocaust. He then spent his adolescent years under the hard-core Stalinist communist dictatorship. He was brought up by a single mother, a Holocaust survivor, in a working-class neighborhood. According to contemporary American definition, the family lived in poverty, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck his uneducated and unskilled mother could provide as a manual laborer. As a freshman at the Technical University of Budapest, he participated in a peaceful student march on October 23, 1956, that turned into a bloody uprising against the regime. He was caught up in the uprising, hoping that Hungary could break free out of the “iron curtain” that separated the east from the west. When the Russians put down the revolution, he managed to escape to Austria on December 6, 1956, with no money or other earthly possessions, leaving behind his mother, family, and friends. He was single-mindedly focused on finding a new, free country where he could continue his university education. He went to the American Embassy in Vienna to apply for immigrating to the US but was told that the quota for Hungarian refugees was filled. The Canadians were actively seeking students who wanted to continue their education, and Robert Ratonyi ended up in Montréal, Canada, in February 1957. The last story ends when Robert Ratonyi succeeds in finishing his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. This story demonstrates how an immigrant can become a contributor to society by taking risks, being willing to work hard, delaying gratification, learning English, and getting a good education. He is now semiretired as a portfolio manager and is a regular speaker on behalf of the William Breman Jewish Heritage&Holocaust Museum and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He and his wife live in Atlanta and are fervent supporters of the arts, education, as well as local Jewish organizations.
The main title of the book, From Darkness into Light, is a metaphor referring to the most important life-altering event in the author’s life from a totalitarian dictatorship to living in the free world. The subtitle reflects his eyewitness account of events and experiences, captured in five stories, in chronological order, from his birth in 1938 in Budapest, Hungary, to when he is in the United States as twenty-six years old as a married man with a child, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the world’s premier science and engineering institution, and ready to embark on living the American dream. Robert Ratonyi spent the first seven years of his life in an openly anti-Semitic country, suffering the loss of his father and many of his close relatives, uncles, aunts, and cousins, in the Holocaust. He then spent his adolescent years under the hard-core Stalinist communist dictatorship. He was brought up by a single mother, a Holocaust survivor, in a working-class neighborhood. According to contemporary American definition, the family lived in poverty, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck his uneducated and unskilled mother could provide as a manual laborer. As a freshman at the Technical University of Budapest, he participated in a peaceful student march on October 23, 1956, that turned into a bloody uprising against the regime. He was caught up in the uprising, hoping that Hungary could break free out of the “iron curtain” that separated the east from the west. When the Russians put down the revolution, he managed to escape to Austria on December 6, 1956, with no money or other earthly possessions, leaving behind his mother, family, and friends. He was single-mindedly focused on finding a new, free country where he could continue his university education. He went to the American Embassy in Vienna to apply for immigrating to the US but was told that the quota for Hungarian refugees was filled. The Canadians were actively seeking students who wanted to continue their education, and Robert Ratonyi ended up in Montréal, Canada, in February 1957. The last story ends when Robert Ratonyi succeeds in finishing his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. This story demonstrates how an immigrant can become a contributor to society by taking risks, being willing to work hard, delaying gratification, learning English, and getting a good education. He is now semiretired as a portfolio manager and is a regular speaker on behalf of the William Breman Jewish Heritage&Holocaust Museum and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He and his wife live in Atlanta and are fervent supporters of the arts, education, as well as local Jewish organizations.
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From Darkness into Light: My Journey Through Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to Freedom (2020)
~EN PB NWISBN: 9781646545452 bzw. 1646545451, vermutlich in Englisch, Fulton Books, Taschenbuch, neu.
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