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Oral history interview with Erzsébet Bényei

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.27 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0027

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    Oral history interview with Erzsébet Bényei

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Erzsébet Bényei (Bényei Józsefné Kindrusz Erzsébet), born in 1935, discusses her memories of two Jewish playmates and their families; the integration the Jewish community in Nyiregyhaza society; the disappearance of her Jewish friends and their families in 1944; her parents’ shock at the disappearance of their neighbors and dismay as people glibly looted the homes of the deported Jews; an incident in which her mother told a teenager to stop singing an antisemitic song while a passerby encouraged the singer to keep going; hearing about Jews being taken to work in a brick factory; witnessing a procession of Jews who were being deported; her lack of memory in regard to Jewish survivors returning to the town after the war; and the impression that a visit to Auschwitz made on her years later.
    Interviewee
    Dr. Erzsébet Bényei
    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
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bényei, Erzsébet.

    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 09:21:53
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