{"id":1965,"date":"2018-03-14T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=1965"},"modified":"2018-03-26T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:54:30","slug":"joe-portaleki-pdf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roslindale\/joe-portaleki-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Portaleki PDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69d068a196077{font-size:36px;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1521054431571 vcex_69d068a196077\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">A Refugee Odyssey: Josef Porteleki<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1522083260166{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1923\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop-959x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop-959x1024.jpeg 959w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop-281x300.jpeg 281w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop-768x820.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joe_Portaleki-crop.jpeg 1014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/>The owner of the Ace Hardware store in Roslindale, Josef (Joe) Porteleki was born in 1947 in Hungary, son of Gertrude Gerersdorfer, an Austrian national, and\u00a0Joszef Porteleki, a Hungarian. Joe and his family were among the more than 900,000 war refugees from many different countries who lived for years in Displaced Persons (DP) camps before they were resettled elsewhere. By 1946 there were hundreds of DP facilities in Germany, Austria, Italy, and other European countries.\u00a0The following is an edited transcript from a 2016 interview with Joe. He talks about growing up in a DP camp in Austria, coming to the US, and settling in Jamaica Plain and Roslindale. If you&#8217;d like to listen to the interview, click <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-362352614\/josef-porteleki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe class=\"pdfjs-viewer\" width=\"800px\" height=\"700px\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-viewer\/stable\/web\/viewer.html?file=https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Portaleki-final-50-minute-transcript.pdf\"><\/iframe> \n<p>&nbsp;[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1522083260166{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]The owner of the Ace Hardware store in Roslindale, Josef (Joe) Porteleki was born in 1947 in Hungary, son of Gertrude Gerersdorfer, an Austrian national, and\u00a0Joszef Porteleki, a Hungarian. 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