Annamária Gugler

Annamária Gugler was born as Annamária Goron in Nagyvárad (Oradea) in 1961. Her mother Emília Czenker graduated as sociologist during WWII when Northern Transylvania was reattached to Hungary. During the new Rumanian power she could work only as an accountant. She died in 1989. Her father József Goron was chief storekeeper at the Rumanian Railways. He had a seizure and he died in 1988. Annamária Gugler’s brother works as a shepherd near to Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca). She graduated at a college in Nagyvárad after the local primary and secondary schools in 1983. She became a production engineer. She was married in 1981, his husband Márton Nagy was a mechanic engineer. Their daughter Emese Nagy was born in 1985. At first Annamária Gugler got a job as an engineer in Máramaros (Maramures), but after the birth of the child she remained in Nagyvárad and she could find only unskilled works. She was employed in a moulding factory. The family applied for passport to Czechoslovakia in August 1987, but they got it only in April 1988. In the meantime her father died and her family bonds to Transylvania loosened. They left for a trip to Czechoslovakia, but after one day they went on to Hungary. In Hungary they spent 11 months, they got a job and tried to get Hungarian citizenship and to settle. At the beginning of 1989 they decided to leave for Austria. They tried both by car and by train, but they were sent back each time without a valid passport. Having failed to cross the border several times, her husband gave up but she held on her aim. One of her colleagues brought her to the border by car and she managed to escape with her daughter among cars and border officers to the Austrian side of the border. She went to a refugee camp. Her husband followed them in two week time and he joined the family in the camp. They planned to go to America, but they gave it up soon. They lived in Raiding (Doborján) in a refugee hotel for almost two years. Later they bought a flat in Oberpullendorf (Felsőpulya). At the beginning she got temporary works, then she was employed as an unskilled worker at a factory which produced hawser frames. Later she learned to be an IT technician and she was employed as a help-desk officer at an IT company. She worked for the French ATOS and the German Siemens again in IT field. She divorced in 2001 and she was remarried in 2004. Her second husband is Johann Gugler. She moved to Lackenbach (Lakompak) where they continue to live with their son Mark Gugler who was born in 2006.

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