- Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
- Title:
- Chicago Cold War: Stephen I. Harmath
- Creator:
- Harmath , Stephen I.
Ohlson, Walter H. - Publisher:
- Chicago, Ill. : Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum - Date of Original:
- 2012-08-07
- Subject:
- Oral history
Interviews
Cold War
Revolutions
World War, 1939-1945 - Location:
- Hungary, 47.0, 20.0
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
Text
StillImage - Format:
- audio/mpeg
image/jpeg
application/pdf - Description:
- Born in 1936 in Budapest, Hungary, Stephen (Istvan) Harmath defected to Canada in 1956, following the Hungarian Uprising of that year. A glassblower by profession, Harmath and his wife immigrated to Chicago in 1963 to work in the cathode ray tube industry. In Chicago, Harmath became active with the local Hungarian community, as well as the Republican Party, culminating in a 2006 visit to the White House, under the administration of George W. Bush. In 2003, Harmath retired at the age of sixty-eight after working for a succession of small businesses pertaining to television tubes and other glass products. Harmath also wrote a column in Amerikai Magyarság, a weekly Hungarian newspaper published in Canada.
- Metadata URL:
- http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/269
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/iiif/2/chm_oh:269/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- © 2017 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please visit https://images.chicagohistory.org or contact rightsrepro@chicagohistory.org. - Extent:
- Audio file: 1:23 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Oral History Collection (Chicago History Museum)
Chicago Cold War Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Chicago History Museum
- Rights:
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