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Sandor Teszler (June 25, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary – July 23, 2000 in Spartanburg, South Carolina), was a Hungarian-American textile executive and philanthropist who survived the Holocaust, working as a textile executive in Hungary, Yugoslavia, and the United States. ==Biography== Born in Budapest, Hungary, Teszler spent his early years in hospitals in Budapest being treated for club feet, but after several years of treatment, was able to enter school.〔Funeral Notice, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, July 26, 2000〕 〔Wofford College Press Release, July 24, 2000, Wofford College Archives〕 After attending high school in Budapest, he studied textile engineering at the University of Chemnitz, in Germany. As a Jew, Teszler was unable to attend university in Hungary because the quota of Jewish students had already been filled.〔[Memoirs of Sandor Teszler, Chapter 1, http://www.wofford.edu/library/archives/teszler-memoir1.aspx〕 Following his graduation from the University of Chemnitz, he joined his brother’s textile company in Zagreb, Croatia in 1925. In 1929, the firm merged with another firm and moved to Cakovec, Croatia. The textile industry in Yugoslavia was almost nonexistent at this point, because most textile firms had been in the Czech part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. By 1941, it had become a large, vertically-integrated firm, with spinning, dyeing, weaving, knitting, and apparel manufacturing.〔Memoirs of Sandor Teszler, Chapter 1, http://www.wofford.edu/library/archives/teszler-memoir1.aspx〕 Following the German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the area in which his factory was located came under Hungarian control. The factory continued to produce textile goods for the Hungarian government. For three years, the Teszler family, including his wife and two sons, was unharmed. When the German army occupied Hungary in 1944, the situation for Hungary’s Jews deteriorated rapidly. The intervention of factory workers themselves kept the Teszler family from being deported, but resulted in their being virtually imprisoned on the factory grounds for six months. Later taken with his family back to Budapest, he was able to go into hiding, but in November, was taken to a death house. On the verge of committing suicide by taking cyanide tablets, they were saved by the intervention of the Swiss consul, who was responsible for Yugoslav citizens in Budapest.〔Memoirs of Sandor Teszler, Chapter 2, http://www.wofford.edu/library/archives/teszler-memoir2.aspx〕 After they were liberated by the Soviets, the Teszlers tried to rebuild their lives. The Yugoslav government seized their factory, claiming they had collaborated with the Germans. Teszler was one of three experts in textiles who helped to rebuild Hungary’s textile industry, but deteriorating conditions and the pending takeover of Hungary’s government by Communists led him to flee to Great Britain, where his sons were in school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sandor Teszler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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