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Oral history interview with Tibor Kasztner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.16 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0016

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    Oral history interview with Tibor Kasztner

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tibor Kasztner, born in Mako, Hungary in 1936, discusses his memories of people using derogatory terms for Jews in everyday conversations during his childhood; witnessing Jewish families wearing Star of David badges being forced to walk to the train station where they were loaded into wagons; the community’s silence about the deportations; how his father, who worked as a locksmith, refused to unlock Jewish homes for looters; visiting a looted Jewish house and seeing the home in disarray; hearing that the house was later rented to an acquaintance; and an older colleague who engaged in Holocaust denial.
    Interviewee
    Tibor Kasztner
    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
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kasztner, Tibor.

    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 09:21:49
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