Overview
- Interviewee
- Bela Varga
- Interviewer
- Professor Randolph L. Braham
- Date
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interview:
1979 March 22
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 sound cassette.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Randolph Braham donated his audio and videorecordings to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum between 1996 and 2001. The recordings consist of audio and video interviews Professor Braham conducted with survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary and videorecordings of lectures delivered by scholars and Holocaust survivors under the auspices of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-06-14 10:56:42
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The collection consists of research material collected by Randolph L. Braham, the world renowned expert on the Holocaust in Hungary. Includes materials relevant to the Holocaust and its aftermath in Eastern Europe in general, and in Hungary and Romania in particular, trials against suspected war criminals, the revival of extreme right ideologies, and biographical information pertaining to the donor. Organized into 17 series: Series 1: Hungarian Records Relating to the Holocaust, 1944; 184 microfilm reels; Series 2: Records Relating to the Béla Berend (Albert Bruce Belton) Cases against Randolph L. Braham and Others, 1944-1987, on 121 microfiche; Series 3: Records Relating to the Destruction of Jews in Northern Transylvania, 1944-2007; Series 4: Records Relating to United States vs. Ferenc Koréh, 1944-1997; Series 5: Records Relating to Hungarian and Canadian Legal Procedures Involving Imre Finta, 1944-1994. Series 6: Records from Hungarian Archives Relating to the Holocaust in Hungary, 1938-1949; Series 7: Records from European, American, and Israeli Archives Relating to the Holocaust in Hungary, 1935-1971; Series 8: Statements and Testimonies of and Correspondence with the “Dramatis Personae” of the Holocaust in Hungary, 1945-1983; Series 9: Research Material Relating to Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Holocaust Denial, Historical Revisionism and Neo-Fascism, 1946-2004; Series 10: Miscellaneous Files, 1945-2007; Series 11: Collection of Printed Material: Studies, Essays, Articles; Series 12: “Chapter Folders” to the Second Edition of The Politics of Genocide, 1944-1994, Series 13: Research Material to the Memoir and Other Writings of Randolph Braham, 1944-2008, Series 14: Audio Visual Materials, 1972-1986, Series 15: Newspaper articles and scholarly studies by Randolph L. Braham, 1948-2011, Series 16: Bookreviews written by Randolph L. Braham, 1953-2007, Series 17: Reviews published about works by Randolph L. Braham, 1961-2011.
Date: 1935-2005
Randolph Braham audiovisual materials
Document
Consists of audio and videorecordings of interviews Randolph Braham conducted with survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary between 1972 and 1996, and video recordings of lectures delivered by scholars and Holocaust survivors in The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York between 1982 and 1986. Most of these recordings are digitally available under RG-90.029.
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Award
Object
Award: medal awarded by the Friends of the Jewish Communities of Romania, with accompanying certificate, October 6, 2017
Commemorative medal
Object
"Order of Merit Officer's Cross of the Republic of Hungary"; medal awarded by President Árpad Göncz, November 9, 1995
Award Certificate
Object
"Order of Merit Officer's Cross of the Republic of Hungary"; scroll signed by President Árpad Gönez, November 9, 1995
Commemorative medal
Object
Medal awarded by the Hungarian Auschwitz Foundation-Holocaust Documentation Center: May 5, 1997
Award Certificate
Object
Herzl-Nordau Prize awarded by the Hungarian Zionist Association, signed by Englander, Budapest: October 16, 1999
Commemorative medal
Object
"Pro Cultura Hungarica" Award of the Hungarian Minister of Cultural Heritage: December 13, 2002 (medal in box and scroll)
Commemorative medal
Object
"Science for Society" award by the Hungarian Academy of Science: April 16, 2004
Award Certificate
Object
"Life Achievement Diploma" awarded by the Permanent Forum of Jewish Communities and Congregations; scroll signed by Péter Weisz on May 26, 2006
Commemorative medal
Object
"Life Achievement Diploma" awarded by the Permanent Forum of Jewish Communities and Congregations; Medal
Commemorative medal
Object
"Order of Merit, Medium Cross of the Republic of Hungary"; medal awarded on October 5, 2011
Award Certificate
Object
"Order of Merit, Medium Cross of the Republic of Hungary"; scroll signed by President Pál Schmitt on October 5, 2011
Commemorative medal
Object
"Várhegyi György Award awarded by the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Society, Budapest, October 13, 2011; medal
Randolph Braham collection
Document
The Randolph Braham collection consists of research material collected by Randolph L. Braham, world renowned expert on the Holocaust in Hungary. Includes materials relevant to the Holocaust and its aftermath in Eastern Europe in general, and in Hungary and Romania in particular; trials against suspected war criminals; the revival of extreme right ideologies; and biographical and academic information pertaining to the donor. Nearly all of the Holocaust-era records are reproductions.
