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Oral history interview with Tibor Szirtes

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.14 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0014

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    Oral history interview with Tibor Szirtes

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tibor Szirtes, born in 1933, discusses hearing antisemitic jokes and songs while growing up in Budapest; the low profile maintained by Jewish classmates in school; hearing about university students beating up Jewish students; hearing derogatory terms when talking about Jews in a bar; informing a Jewish store owner that his apartment was bombed; his father and his colleagues guessing at who belonged to Arrow Cross; memories of an antisemitic journal to which his father subscribed in fall of 1944; relocating to his mother’s hometown, Melykut, to escape bombings; him memory of some Jewish families who converted to Christianity; evacuating their Pestszentlorinc neighborhood in November 1944 and searching for a new apartment; touring two apartments previously owned by Jews; a soldier who collected items that belonged to deported Jews; noticing toys in the apartment and picking up a small camera which he used once film was available after 1950; his mother’s decision that they could not morally move into a deported Jewish person’s apartment; returning a musical instrument he took from one of the apartments; seeing stacks of letters written by the apartment’s owners; witnessing Arrow Cross soldiers round up Jews; how the Arrow Cross soldiers looked at him suspiciously because he wore a military uniform; returning to school after a year and a half and noticing two Jewish classmates who returned as well; knowing Jewish colleagues at work but never addressing their religious background; living in an apartment in a house previously owned by a wealthy Jewish bakery owner; winning a Budapest Public Transportation Company essay contest in 1984 for essays he wrote about his wartime memories; and donating his re-written essays to the Holocaust Museum in Budapest after noticing severe edits to his essays from the contest.
    Interviewee
    Tibor Szirtes
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2011 October 05
    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..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    Nyilaskeresztes Párt.

    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 09:21:48
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