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Oral history interview with Arie Raich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.245 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0245

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    Oral history interview with Arie Raich

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    Interview Summary
    Arie Raich, born in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary in 1922, recounts being the oldest of six children; his family's poverty; attending public school and cheder; his bar mitzvah; studying in Békéscsaba, Hungary; living with an aunt in Budapest, Hungary; working in a factory; visiting his father in a work camp; the German invasion; working with the Va'adat (Relief and Rescue Committee) under Fülöp Freudiger, a member of the Judenrat, arranging to smuggle Jews to Romania; traveling to Szentes, Hungary then Szeged, Hungary; obtaining blank documents to make false papers; returning to Budapest with his future wife and her relatives; obtaining housing from his former boss; two sisters joining them; preparing forged documents; his arrest and incarceration in Kistarcsa; obtaining a false birth certificate for his release; forging papers resulting in releases for others; obtaining papers for his father and others from Raoul Wallenberg; placing his father in a Swedish safe house; obtaining funds from the committee to provide food for Jewish children in a Red Cross safe house; liberation by Soviet troops; assistance from the Joint; his marriage in 1945; immigrating to Israel via Vienna, Austria; reuniting with his brother; learning his mother and sister were killed in Auschwitz; and not discussing his experiences with his grandchildren, thinking they would not believe him.
    Interviewee
    Arie Raich
    Date
    interview:  1995 June 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    3 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Arie Raich in Israel on June 1, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    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 08:15:44
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