Sandor Kopasci

Sándor Kopácsi (born March 5 1922) is a Hungarian-born author and former police chief of Budapest.

He was born in Miskolc. At one time he was a metal worker as were his father and grandfather before him. His wife's name is Ibolya and his daughter's name is Judit. He joined the Mokán resistance in 1944, a resistance movement during the German occupation in Hungarycite web|url=http://www.rev.hu/history_of_56/szerviz/kislex/biograf/kopacsi.htm|title=Sándor Kopácsi] . In 1952 he became the chief of police of Budapest. On November 5, 1956 he was sent to prison and in 1958 he was sentenced to a life sentence for being one of the eight leaders of the upheaval in Budapest. He was released from prison in 1963 and went back to metalworking in a Budapest factory. In 1975 he moved to Canada were his daughter livedcite web|url=http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/03/Kopacsi.html|title=Hero of 1956 Hungary Revolt Dies] . In 1979, with the help of Tibor Tardos, the book "Au nom de la classe ouvrière" or "In the Name of the Working Class" was published in Paris. "In the Name of the Working Class" is an autobiography detailing the incident of the Hungarian Revolution from his perspective. On March 3 2001, at the age of 78, Sándor Kopácsi died.

Work

* "In the Name of the Working Class", Grove Press, 1986.

References

External links

* [http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/03/Kopacsi.html Sandor Kopacsi's death] , hosted on the website of David Irving
* [http://www.rev.hu/history_of_56/szerviz/kislex/biograf/kopacsi.htm Biography of Sandor Kopacsi] by The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.