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Oral history interview with János Kopka

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.5 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0005

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    Oral history interview with János Kopka

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Janos Kopka, a retired journalist, approximately 79 years old at the time of the interview in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, discusses his mother’s refusal to keep valuables belonging to a Jewish neighbor; hearing antisemitic songs as a boy; witnessing Jews being rounded up in Nyiregyhaza and a procession of people being taken to the ghetto; overcrowding and hunger in the ghetto; hearing about Mayor Pal Szohor announcing the city clean of Jews in the summer of 1944; using his horse and cart to transport elderly and sick Jews to Nyirjes; witnessing gendarmes throw to the ground physically weak Jews who were unable to get off the cart; seeing vacated houses looted and boarded up; being told where stolen goods were being distributed; his view of why people did not behave honorably; a group of boys singing antisemitic songs in the streets; hiding under the seats in a movie theater during the Jud Suss film; his understanding of Germany’s invasion of Poland and the start of the war; non-Jews inhabiting vacant Jewish houses; his father taking him to the town square where Jewish-owned furniture was for sale; and his father's refusal to purchase the furniture.
    Interviewee
    János Kopka
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2011 May 26
    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
    Kopka, János.

    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:21:45
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