Robert Holczer

Holczer illegally left Hungary for Israel a few weeks before he would have completed gymnasium, by passing through the American section of Vienna. Holczer spent his time in Israel living in a kibbutz along the Jordan border. Holczer returned to Hungary in 1950 due to homesickness and communist propaganda. There, he was shunned for his time in the West before obtaining a degree in geography through a fortunate series of events and became a geography teacher. Holczer illegally left Hungary again in 1956. He intended to go to Sweden but went to the US city of St. Louis, Missouri instead. From there, Holczer moved to Aspen, Colorado. After that, he worked first in Alaska, then Fresno, California where he obtained a master's degree in history. He then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he met his wife. He became a history teacher. Holczer spent a year in Germany before moving back to the US to marry his wife. He proceeded to spend nineteen years living in Germany. He later moved back to the US to Paris, Kentucky before moving to Portland, Oregon and then Vancouver, Washington. Holczer spent time later in life speaking to school children about his time during the Holocaust until he was no longer able to due to the state of his health.

Consists of four postcards sent between 1942 and 1944 from Robert Holczer's father, Lajos Holczer, to Robert Holczer and his mother.

Robert Holczer (August 31, 1929 – August 28, 2017) was a Holocaust survivor, teacher, and resident of Hungary, Israel, Germany, and the United States. Items commemorating Holczer's Holocaust survival are stored in the special collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The third chapter of This is Home Now: Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak is devoted to him.

Holczer was born in Budapest on August 31, 1929 to parents Lajos Holczer and Kornelia Holczer née Oestreicher.