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Zsuzsanna Ozsváth | |
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 Photograph of Zsuzsanna Ozsváth | |
| Born | Zsuzsanna Abonyi July 4th, 1934 (age 90) |
| Education | Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (BA) The University of Texas at Austin (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Author, Translator |
Zsuzsanna Ozsváth (born July 4, 1934) is a Hungarian author and translator of Jewish descent. After moving to the United States, she documented her experience as a holocaust survivor and translated several works of poetry and literature, mainly those of Hungarian and German authors.
Personal Life
editBorn in the small town of Békéscsaba in Hungary to Laszlo Abonyi and Margit née Nagy. Her mother’s four sisters and one brother perished during the Holocaust, as did her brother’s son. Her father had a brother killed in Russia and a sister who died in Bergen-Belsen[1]. Zsuzsanna had an older brother, Ivan, who survived the Holocaust.
In 1941, her parents sold their pharmacy in Békéscsaba and moved to the capital city of Budapest, a move that likely saved their lives. In March of 1944, Zsuzsanna was nine years old when Nazi forces invaded and occupied Hungary. Jews from across Hungary, including Békéscsaba, were rounded, deported, and murdered. The Jews in Budapest, including the Abonyi family, were forced into ghettoes[2].
In 1950, Zsuzsanna married Dr. Istvan “Pista” Ozsváth (1928-2013). In 1962 they moved to the Unites States where he had been offered a position as a mathematics professor at The University of Texas in Austin[3]. The following year, he accepted a position at the newly-formed Graduate Research Center of the Southwest, which later became The University of Texas at Dallas, and the Ozsváths moved to the Dallas area, where they raised their two children[4].
Professional Life
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A classical pianist, Ozsváth was awarded a concert diploma from the State Academy of Music at Hamburg in 1961. She went on to earn her PhD in German Language and Literature from The University of Texas at Austin in 1968[5].
Ozsváth joined The University of Texas at Dallas as a lecturer in 1976, initially teaching 19th- and 20th-century literature and history classes. Shortly thereafter, she began teaching courses about the Holocaust. Ozsváth received numerous prestigious honors, including the Fulbright Award (1990), IREX Award (1990), and she was a co-recipient of one of the most prestigious Hungarian literary awards, the Milán Füst Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1995[6].
She spearheaded the founding of the Holocaust Studies Program at UT Dallas in 1986 and was also instrumental in the establishment of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at UT Dallas a few years later[7]. In 2003, she was appointed to the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies[6]. She continued teaching until 2020, at which time she was named Professor Emeritas.
Author
editIn her memoir, When the Danube Ran Red (2010)[8], Ozsváth describes her life as a young girl in Hungary during the Holocaust. She discusses her family being forced into the ghetto and later her time in hiding from the Nazis. She and her family survived due to the actions of their former nanny, Erzsi, who risked her own life to save theirs. The title of the book is derived from the sight of countless Jews who were shot into the river until the water turned red. She further elaborated on her experience in her second memoir, My Journey Home: Life After the Holocaust.
Works
edit- Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklós Radnóti (1992)
- The Iron–Blue Vault: Attila József, Selected Poems (1999)
- Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti (2000)
- When the Danube Ran Red (2010)
- My Journey Home: Life After the Holocaust (2019)
- The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Goethe (2019)
- Faust, Part One (2021)
- Light among the Shade: Eight–Hundred–Years of Hungarian Poetry (2022)
Notes
edit- ^ "From the testimony of Zsuzsanna (Abonyi) Ozsvath, July 1985". www.yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ "Historical Background: The Jews of Hungary During the Holocaust". www.yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ "Zsuzsanna Ozsvath Abonyi on life after the Holocaust". USC Shoah Foundation. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ "Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Holocaust Studies Program Founder, To Retire". News Center. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ "Zsuzsanna Ozsvath". profiles.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ a b "UTD's Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Appointed to New Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies". News Center. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ "About the Center - Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies | The University of Texas at Dallas". ackerman.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ "When the Danube Ran Red – Syracuse University Press". Retrieved 2024-07-02.