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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 Georgia Gabor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.13 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0013
Date:
interview: 1984 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; becoming aware that she was different from other Hungarians because she was Jewish in 1942; hearing what was going on in Poland with the Jews; the Germans…
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 … gymnasium, which was a college prep high school, but only a certain percentage of Jews were admitted. But her father used his connections to get her in. 04:00…
4. A life of survival
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0011 | RG Number: RG-02.045
Date:
creation: 1990
… Hungarian Jews in 1944.…
5. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Fuchs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.8 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0008
Date:
interview: 1986 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1944 persecutions of Jews under the Arrow Cross government; being approached by Wallenberg and being ready to help him, mainly by persuading her husband…
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 … Minister Gábor Kemény, was shocked by the October 1944 persecutions of Jews under the Arrow Cross government. She thus, when approached by Wallenberg, was…
6. 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…
7. Oral history interview with Tibor Baranski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.53 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0053
Date:
interview: 1986 October 02-1986 October 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in several rescues of Jews from October to December 1944 at the request of Angelo Rotta, the papal nuncio, who acted as a representative of the Vatican…
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 … near. Mr. Baranski provides a very detailed and extensive description of several rescues of Jews, from October to December, 1944, at the request of…
8. Oral history interview with Olga Adler
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… more as Hungarian than Jewish; the Hungarian occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938; the restrictions placed on Jews; her brother and future husband being…
9. Oral history interview with Eva Bentley
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.31 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0031
Date:
interview: 1985 March 18
interview: 1985 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was shot and her mother was bayoneted; surviving in a primitive Jewish hospital facility; a number of instances of aid by non-Jews given by clergy and…
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 … that, please? EB: W-A-H-R-M-A-N-N. JF: Thank you. EB: This family gave one Deputy Finance Minister1, the first Jew, to Austro- Hungary. My father served…
10. Oral history interview with Maria Dovrovich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.19 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0019
Date:
interview: 1987 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her family before the war; living with a Jewish family during the war; assisting Hungarian Jews by forging identification papers and by smuggling food…
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 …- -LANGUAGES- -KEY_SEGMENT- -GEOGRAPHIC_NAME- -PERSONAL_NAME- -CORPORATE_NAME- -KEY_WORDS- -NOTES- -CONTENTS- Maria Dobrowicz assisted Hungarian Jews by forging…
11. Oral history interview with Eva Cutler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.55 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0055
Date:
interview: 1984 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s change from being unaware of existing Hungarian antisemitism and of Nazi persecutions of Jews elsewhere to experiencing government imposed restrictions…
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 … Jews elsewhere, to growing dread under government imposed restrictions, almost secret attempts to emigrate, along with continuing disbelief. She tells of…
12. Oral history interview with George Bauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.2 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0002
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hungary; restrictions being put into place in 1938; Jews struggling to find work and his father trying to help when he could; living in an apartment…
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 … of 1938 many restrictions were put into place. Until 1940, almost everything was intact. In 1940 they could only employ a small percentage of Jews…
13. 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…
14. Oral history interview with Louis Bakay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.1 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0001
Date:
interview: 1990 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; antisemitism in Eastern European countries, especially in the lower classes in the cities; restrictions on Jews; the German occupation and the emergence of…
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 … antisemitism was inborn in all East European countries but was most virulent in the lower classes in the cities. There were restrictions on Jews mainly limiting…
15. Oral history interview with Pearl Herling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.109 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0109
Date:
interview: 1981 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pearl Herling, born in Budapest, Hungary on August 24, 1924, describes the antisemitism and discrimination against Jews that always present in…
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 … discrimination against Jews which peaked in 1938. She also describes the increasingly harsh restrictions against Hungarian Jews between 1940 and 1944 and the…
16. Oral history interview with Yehuda Mandell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.116 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0116
Date:
interview: 1982 February 18
interview: 1982 March 17
interview: 1982 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… World War I; relations with non-Jews and his education; the occupation of his town by various countries, until Csepe became part of Czechoslovakia…
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 … education, their music, their everything, is oppressed by the Austrian government. Therefore, they, in their own homes, just as we Jews spoke Yiddish, so they…
17. Oral history interview with Itzhak Grossman and Veronica Parochi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.32 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0032
Date:
interview: 1987 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… nanny; Veronica becoming aware of what was happening to the Jews in 1937; Itzhak’s family staying in Budapest while Veronica went to the Budapest ghetto…
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 … Itzhak Grossman, now living together in Israel. Itzhak's family were Jews from Budapest, who hired Veronica before the war in the capacity of nanny. Once…
18. Oral history interview with Joseph Symon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.113 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0113
Date:
interview: 1990 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… the war; the subsequent persecution of Jews; witnessing the deteriorating conditions in Hungary and the eventual German occupation; working in the…
19. Oral history interview with Theresa Golluber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.270 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0270
Date:
interview: 1990 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with the children; receiving aid from non-Jews and an SA officer who warned her about her imminent arrest; escaping to London from August 1939 to…
20. Oral history interview with Benjamin Elias and Helen Elias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.25 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0025
Date:
interview: 1987 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… home, so soldiers could be put into it; making false papers for hundreds of Jews; immigrating to Israel in 1948 because they did not want to live with…
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 …. 13:00 Helen had four half-sisters two of whom are married to Jews. She was born in 1913 and is the oldest. 14:00 She grew up around Jews, very…