Peter Gorog, a Holocaust survivor, will talk about his life during Montgomery College’s annual Holocaust commemoration Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
The virtual event also includes a candle lighting ceremony with local survivors, student poetry and music.
Gorog was born Péter Grünwald in Budapest,Hungary in 1941. Prior to his birth, his father was conscripted into a forced labor battalion with other Jewish men. He was reported missing by the Red Cross in 1943 and is presumed to have frozen to death.
Gorog and his mother eventually moved to the Budapest ghetto until it was liberated by the Soviet Army in January 1945.
He grew up in Communist Hungary and changed his family name in 1962 from Grünwald to Gorog for fear of antisemitic discrimination.
He earned a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering and later participated in the design of the first Hungarian-made computer. He defected to the United States in 1980, where he worked on various NASA projects.
He and his wife have five daughters.
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