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Oral history interview with Erzsébet Bereczki

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.6 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0006

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    Oral history interview with Erzsébet Bereczki

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Erzsebet Bercki, 76 years old at the time of the interview in Nagykallo, discusses how her family hid three Jewish men; seeing Jews marching down a road and the bodies of those who had been shot; soldiers passing through her home frequently during the Battle of Debrecen when German and Soviet soldiers fought in the forest by her house; her memory of Jewish men hiding in a ditch by her house; how her parents devised a code using food to indicate whether the soldiers were Soviet and the environment was safe or if the soldiers were German; how the Jewish men in hiding would interpret Russian for her family; hiding in a bunker for several days with Jews and local women in fear of being raped; hearing people talking about breaking into and stealing furniture from houses previously owned by Jews; meeting people who had acquired the furniture; and an antisemitic song that she learned from a German soldier who spoke Hungarian.
    Interviewee
    Erzsébet Bereczki
    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
    Bereczki, Erzsébet.

    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 09:21:46
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