Sandor Kopasci
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Sandor Kopasci (born March 5, 1922) is a Hungarian-born author and former Hungarian police chief.
He was born in Miskolc. At one time he was a metal worker as just like his father and grandfather before him. His wife's name is Iboyla and his daughter's name is Judit. He joined the Mokán resistance in 1944, a resistance movement during the German occupation in Hungary[1]. In 1952 he became the chief of police of Budapest. On November 5, 1956 he was sent to prison and in 1958 he was sententeced a life sentence for being one of the eight leaders of the upheveal in Budapest. He was released from prison in 1963 and went back to working metal in a Buapest Factory. In 1975 he moved to Canada were his daughter lived[2]. In 1979 with the help of Tybor Tardos "Au nom de la classe ouvrière" or "In the Name of the Working Class" was published in Paris. "In the Name of the Working Class" is an autobiography detailing the incident of the Hungarian Revolution from his perspective. On March 3, 2001 at age 78 Sandor Kopasci died.
[edit] Work
- "In the Name of the Working Class", Grove Press, 1986.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Sandor Kopasci's death
- Biography of Sandor Kopasci by The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
