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Oral history interview with Mária Tóth

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.26 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0026

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    Oral history interview with Mária Tóth

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Mária Tóth (Tóth Laszlone Ambrus Mária), born in 1924, discusses her Jewish friends and the integration of the Jewish community in Kecskemét; Jews who fled to Budapest for safety; saying Hail Mary’s in penitence for accompanying her Jewish friend Borcsa Fleischmann to synagogue; the takeover of Jewish-owned shops; working at the Machinery Shareholders Company of Kecskemét and witnessing the dismissal of Jewish employees; seeing Jewish families being taken out of their homes by local policemen and transported to a brick factory; hearing onlookers say that the Jews deserved their treatment; seeing Jewish friends being deported; hearing how Ivan Hejjas and the Ragged Guards brutally treated Jews; how the Arrow Cross tried to recruit her by offering her belongings that were owned by Jews; knowing supporters of the Ragged Guards and Arrow Cross; guarding a Jewish family’s possessions, which Russian soldiers subsequently looted; the return of some Jewish survivors to the area; and hearing from a survivor about his experience at Auschwitz where his entire family was killed.
    Interviewee
    Mária Tóth
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2012 January 18
    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

    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 09:21:52
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