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Oral history interview with Zoltán Őri

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.3 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0003

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    Oral history interview with Zoltán Őri

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Zoltán Őri, a retired architect living in Dunaujvaros when interviewed, discusses the first time he saw a Jewish person wear a Star of David badge; watching the Nazi propaganda film Jud Suss; resulting tensions and smashed Jewish windows in his community following the film; witnessing teenage boys throwing stones at a Jewish-owned house; witnessing the collection of Jews in two buildings and a courtyard; seeing gendarmes pushing people towards a train station with rifle butts and seeing elderly Jews carried in a cart; two names of local administrators who collaborated in deporting Jews; a Jewish acquaintance who promised he would act in revenge; hearing news that his friend, Peti Fritz, was bullied for being a Jew; general public knowledge of the deportations; and hearing that Jews underwent body cavity searches before being deported.
    Interviewee
    Zoltán Őri
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2011 May 25
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hungarian
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Őri, Zoltán.

    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 the Tziporah Wiesel Fund.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 09:21:45
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