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Oral history interview with Veronika Treszkó

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.20 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0020

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    Oral history interview with Veronika Treszkó

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Veronika Treszkó (Treszkó Gyorgyne Mohácsik Veronika), born in 1926, discusses the peaceful relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Oros (part of Nyíregyháza, Hungary) prior to the war; her father selling milk to the Jewish families; attending school with Jewish girls and having no recollection of discrimination there; lighting candles for religiously observant Jewish families on Shabbat; Jewish family businesses; buying items from Jewish tradesmen in Nyiregyhaza; the lack of Arrow Cross presence in Oros and no memories of local gendarmes harassing Jews; rumors that a son in a nearby family was an Arrow Cross member; seeing Jews wearing the Star of David badge in Nyíregyháza; hearing boys singing antisemitic songs for which her mother scolded them; policemen and gendarmes ordering Jews to pack belongings and gather together; seeing older women crying at the group of Jews were gathered into a school courtyard; the deportation of the town’s Jews without protests or violence from the gendarmes; witnessing family acquaintances being taken away; witnessing the looting of Jewish belongings; the postwar return of one of the deported family’s sons, who reopened the family store and eventually immigrated to the United States; and the return of the sons from another deported Jewish family.
    Interviewee
    Veronika Treszkó
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2011 November 17
    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
    Treszkó, Veronika.
    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 09:21:50
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