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Oral history interview with Julianna György Balázs

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.80 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0080

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    Oral history interview with Julianna György Balázs

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Julianna Balázs (Balázs Istvanne György Julianna), born in 1927, describes growing up in Budapest, Hungary; living in the Újpest neighborhood, where there were many Jewish families; working in her parents’ restaurant; the deportation of some of her neighbors; her husband’s work with a Jewish carpenter, Mr. Kohn; living with her husband in the house of a Jewish man named Krausz, who later changed his name to Kertész; hiding Kertész in the maid’s room at times during 1944; her interactions with the Arrow Cross Party; hiding a Jewish woman named Ilonka, who as the wife of an actor; always trying to get enough food for Kertész and Ilonka; seeing the death of a small child during a bombing; watching as a friend, Laci Neiger, was being escorted by two Arrow Cross men; the gathering of the Jews in Újpest on Hun street and seeing as the columns of Jews walked along Árpád street; Ilonka giving birth to a baby in 1945; and providing Ilonka with breast milk after Ilonka had difficulty producing her own milk.
    Interviewee
    Julianna Balázs
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2014 September 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hungarian
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Balázs, Julianna, 1927-
    Corporate Name
    Nyilaskeresztes Párt.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:22:13
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