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Prewar Jewish life in Budapest

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.81.3 | RG Number: RG-60.1386 | Film ID: 2945

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    Prewar Jewish life in Budapest

    Overview

    Description
    Peter Veres plays in his playpen during summer 1939. He is pushed on a swing outdoors. Mother Kati holds Peter. Kati, Agi, Lenke, Bela, and another woman pose together. Kati and her father Bela Krausz walk towards the camera. Kati, Agi, and another woman, possibly a cousin or friend, pose by a large haystack. George and Kati hug.

    01:13:15 Peter and his cousin Andrew (as infants) are posed on a blanket in the yard, probably in Summer 1939. They are joined by Kati and Agi Jakab (Andrew's mother).

    01:15:09 Kati and another woman knit outdoors. A little girl and Peter play in a playground. 01:15:30 Baby Peter plays on the balcony and in a playpen. The nurse Edith (in the white headscarf) feeds Peter on the balcony of the apartment George and Kati had at 21 Tatra Street in Pest.

    01:17:05 Peter and his cousin Judy Grunfeld play outdoors, likely on Margaret Island, as Kati and Nancy (Judy's mother) watch. Judy pushes Peter in his carriage. Quick CUs of Peter with a pacifier. Kati rows a boat (on the Island of Margaret?). Kati and George were both members of rowing clubs when they were growing up. Rowing was a popular extracurricular activity for families in Budapest.

    01:18:43 Quick shot of Kati and an unknown couple walking towards the camera on a road lined by trees. Kati, the babies, Lenke, and Armin pose for the camera in their garden and on the balcony. VAR CUs of Peter at play indoors wtith a stuffed animal and eating. Peter plays outside in a winter coat and indoors with a toy accordion and a magazine in front of the built-in tile stove at Kati's parents' house at 125 Pasareti St.
    Duration
    00:09:59
    Date
    Event:  1938-1943
    Locale
    Budapest, Hungary
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Peter Veres
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: George S. Veres
    Donor: Peter J. Veres
    Biography
    The Veres family (excluding Kati's father Bela Krausz) survived the Holocaust by living in hiding. Peter (b. October 23, 1938), the oldest son of Kati and George Veres, was born and baptized as an Anglican in London. As a British citizen, he was protected by the Swiss Embassy. Kati and George arranged for two Swiss women to hide six year old Peter for several weeks during the invasion of Budapest in October 1944. Kati, her mother Lenke, and her younger son Paul (b. June 21, 1944) remained in hiding together in the city, while George found protection in a Swiss emergency hospital after escaping from a forced labor battalion in December 1944. George, Kati, their children, and Lenke immigrated to the United States in 1949.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:12:15:00 to 01:22:14:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2945 Video: HDCam - NTSC - small
      Master 2945.1 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - b&w - reversal original - Perutz
      Master 2945.2 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - b&w - Perutz - reversal original
      Master 2945 Video: HDCam - NTSC - small
      Master 2945.1 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - b&w - reversal original - Perutz
      Master 2945.2 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - b&w - Perutz - reversal original
      Master 2945 Video: HDCam - NTSC - small
      Master 2945.1 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - b&w - reversal original - Perutz
      Master 2945.2 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - b&w - Perutz - reversal original
      Master 2945 Video: HDCam - NTSC - small
      Master 2945.1 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - b&w - reversal original - Perutz
      Master 2945.2 Film: positive - 9.5 mm - b&w - Perutz - reversal original
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2945.2 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w
      Preservation 2945.1 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w
      Preservation 2945.2 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w
      Preservation 2945.1 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w
      Preservation 2945.2 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w
      Preservation 2945.1 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w
      Preservation 2945.2 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w
      Preservation 2945.1 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Peter J. Veres
    Conditions on Use
    The Museum does not own the copyright for this material and does not have authority to authorize third party use. For permission, please contact the rights holder, Mr. Peter Veres.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    George Veres purchased a 9.5mm Pathe movie camera after his son Peter was born in 1938. Peter donated the two reels of 9.5mm pre-war family films, along with family papers, audio recordings, photographs, and memorabilia to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in May 2010. The Veres Family Collection (1830s-1987) documents members of the Deutsch, Krausz, and Veres families.
    Note
    From Reel Two in the collection.
    Film Source
    Peter J. Veres
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5604
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:06:42
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