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Oral history interview with Margit Tirpák

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.28 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0028

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    Oral history interview with Margit Tirpák

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    Interview Summary
    Margit Tirpák (Tirpák Jánosné Kerchner Margit), born in 1934, discusses her prewar Jewish neighbors in Olaszliszka, Hungary; positive relationships between Jews and non-Jews; memories of her mother nursing a Jewish baby whose mother lacked milk; her three Jewish classmates; her memories of Jews wearing Star of David badges; the order that any citizen with a horse cart must provide it to transport Jews to the train station; witnessing the deportation of Jews, including her friend Edit Jakubovich and her family; the participation of local policemen in the deportation; the emotional reaction of bystanders who cried and waved goodbye; her mother giving homemade bread to a Jewish family during the deportation; the looting of Jewish belongings following the deportation; keeping books which belonged to Jews and returning them to their owners after the war; individual Jews who returned after the war; her uncertainty as whether ownership of their homes was returned to them; the Friedlander sisters who told her mother how they found their hidden belongings in the attic wall after the war; and Erno Lefkovich who she recalls as the only Jew living in the village after the war.
    Interviewee
    Margit Tirpák
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2012 January 19
    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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    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 09:21:53
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