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1. Groszman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.95.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2010
… Margit’s sister Helén’s (1900-1944) husband Géza Abelesz (1896-1944). Their business was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the…
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 … was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the agricultural commodities business. The family moved to Budapest in Fall 1941. In…
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2. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… House which sheltered around 2000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who…
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 … 2,000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who all survived. Due to…
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3. Oral history interview with Eva Adam
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0415 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0064
Date:
interview: 1997 March 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews; their reluctance to leave Hungary; her father and brother’s membership in the Jewish Legion; serving as adjunct personnel to the Hungarian Army…
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 … sometimes told "Jew" and something. 84 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:18,550 Then I really feel that as a child Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
4. Oral history interview with Emanuel Tanay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.27 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0027
Date:
interview: 1992 February 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Tanay discusses how life changed for the Jews in Miechów, Poland, after the German invasion in 1939; how the Germans increased persecutions…
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 … military left and the SS came and then with the SS came the uh the Ukrainians and the Lithuanians, who really were rather cruel towards the Jews. So there…
5. Records relating to the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Document | Accession Number: 1991.016 | RG Number: RG-20.004.01
Date:
1944-1990
… Spain, in December 1944. During this time, he worked for the establishment of several safehouses in Budapest for sheltering Jews under Spanish protection…
6. Oral history interview with Agnes Allison
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.389 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0389
Date:
interview: 1994 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… hidden by a priest, Father Reile. The family remained in hiding until April 1945, and it was only then that she learned the fate of the European Jews…
7. Oral history interview with Eva Brust Cooper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0137 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0056
Date:
interview: 1991 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Hungary in March 1944; the various types of persecution experienced by the Jews in Budapest including the wearing of yellow Stars of David; her…
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 …, apartment houses, were designated Jewish houses where the Christians had the option to stay or go. In a Jewish house, the Jews stayed and the ones that were…
8. Oral history interview with Agnes Mandl Adachi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.2 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0002
Date:
interview: 1992 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… heroic efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews, his work with children and orphans in Budapest, and his successful attempt to persuade Adolf Eichmann to call off…
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 …Play Media. It is not the primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. We didn't believe, not the Jews and not 47 00:02:57,410 --> 00:02…
9. Oral history interview with Ivan Becker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1259 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0016
Date:
interview: 1995 January 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ivan Becker, born in 1929, discusses his childhood in Budapest, Hungary; his memories of the "hanging priest of Budapest" who killed Jews for…
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 …:50,620 vows, it was a segregated troop, only Jews. 42 00:02:50,620 --> 00:02:59,830 And after 1938 or so, even the elementary school 43 00:02:59…
10. Oral history interview with Eili Ofner and Francis Ofner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.115 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0115
Date:
interview: 1992 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; Germany entering Yugoslavia March 27, 1941; escaping with his wife to Budapest, Hungary, where he managed to get a visa to Turkey; the massacre of Jews and…
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 … Yugoslavia-Romania and was returned to the city Sabac where they were exterminated together with the local Jews. The Germans searched for him when they entered…
11. Fried family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.227 | RG Number: RG-10.019
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1957
… certificates, travel passes, and falsified forms acquired by Elizabeth Fried in order to show that she was a Roman Catholic instead of a Jew. Other documents…
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 … by Elizabeth Fried in order to show that she was a Roman Catholic instead of a Jew. Other documents certify that Jozef Fried was a prisoner in Nazi…
12. Gabriel Schutzengel papers
2005.128.2 Book Enclosure 1 24
Document | Accession Number: 2005.128.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… sister, as well as details about the fate of Jews in Hungary, particularly in Komárom and Budapest. Gabriel’s memoir, titled "Machzor” is typewritten in…
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 … single series. The documents are arranged chronologically. Indexing terms Schutzengel, Gabriel. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews--Hungary. Forced labor…
13. Violet Daniel papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.135.1
… Hungarian Jew, on June 9, 1945 in the former Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria stating that she was liberated there on May 4, 1945. Also includes a…
14. Robert and Jolán Winkler memoirs
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0955
…Contains a two-page summary of Robert Winkler's memoir "A Hungarian Jew Looks Back: A Personal Account of the Pre-World War II Times and the War…
15. Oral history interview with Tom Veres
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0238
Date:
interview: 1992 June 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Raoul Wallenberg's efforts to rescue the Jews of Budapest; making copies of and taking photographs for Schutzpässes; and immigrating to the United States…
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 … exemption for my father and his whole family for the Jewish laws. 01:18:07 And I was in the labor camp but not as a Jew. Exempt and with different armband…
16. Rezső Rudolf Kasztner collection
2017.526.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 59
Document | Accession Number: 2017.526.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2015
bulk: 1944-1979
… Zionists who helped smuggle Jews into Hungary from German-occupied countries. After Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, the Committee shifted to negotiating…
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 … other senior Nazi leaders on behalf of the committee in an attempt to secure the liberation of hundreds of Hungarian Jews. Includes an early draft report…
17. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… describes the invasion and occupation of Budapest and what she saw and heard of the war. She also writes extensively about the persecution of the Jews…
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 … constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. She also references a young boy and his aunt…
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18. Oral history interview with George Pick
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0379
Date:
interview: 2012 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… until March 1944, when German troops occupied Hungary; the Hungarian authorities working with the German Security Police to begin deporting the Jews…
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 … passed between 1938 and 1941. Modeled after Germany’s Nuremberg Laws they defined Jews in racial terms, excluded Jews from various professions, and…
19. Oral history interview with George Pick
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0490
Date:
interview: 2014 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… until March 1944, when German troops occupied Hungary; the Hungarian authorities working with the German Security Police to begin deporting the Jews…
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 … the participation of Jews in the economy. Istvan was then conscripted into the Hungarian labor battalions. German troops occupied Hungary in March 1944…
20. Oral history interview with George Pick
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0452
Date:
interview: 2014 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… until March 1944, when German troops occupied Hungary; the Hungarian authorities working with the German Security Police to begin deporting the Jews…
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 … Nazi Germany, Istvan and Margit lost their jobs due to new laws restricting the participation of Jews in the economy. Istvan was then conscripted into…