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Oral history interview with Klára Ördögh Battancs

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.15 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0015

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    Oral history interview with Klára Ördögh Battancs

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Klara Battancs (Battancs Janosne Ördögh Klara), born in 1921 in Szeged, Hungary, discusses the peaceful relations between Jews and non-Jews in her community during her childhood; the integration of Jews into society; her family’s grocery shop and its Jewish patrons; the dance school she attended, which was operated by a Jew; hiding a Jewish boy in their horse barn during deportations; the boy’s flight from Szeged to Paris; witnessing the roundup by local civilians of wealthy Jews and entire families; seeing families being forced to walk to the train station where they were loaded into wagons; an acquaintance’s description of the transport wagons; and her memories of seeing the ghetto in Szeged from the outside.
    Interviewee
    Klára Battancs
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2011 November 15
    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
    Battancs, Klára.

    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 09:21:49
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