Amalia Willinger Gordeski papers

Amalia Willinger Gordeski (born Amalia Willinger) was born on 5 February 1914 in Hungary to Rosa (née Weinberger) and Adolf Willinger. Amalia was one of 12 children, and her siblings included Berta (b. 1903), Martin (later Martin Farago, 1905-1985), Tessie, Teri, Joseph, Alex, and Dezso. Amalia and her siblings Dezso and Teri immigrated to the United States prior to World War II. She married Julius (Gyula) Gordeski.
During the war, Martin was sent to a Russian labor camp. His wife Jolan (née Ganzfried) and their daughter Vera were both killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the war, he married Edith Schwartz (later Edith Farago, 1914-2004). They lived in Nyíregyháza, Hungary and managed a clothing store, and had a daughter, Marian. After the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, the family fled the country for Austria. They secured visas for the United States shortly after that. Amalia’s sister Berta and her husband Hermann were both deported from Püspökladány, Hungary to Auschwitz where they perished.