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Oral history interview with Géza Takács

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.30 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0030

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    Oral history interview with Géza Takács

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    Interview Summary
    Géza Takács, born in 1928, discusses the mutual trust and friendship between Jews and non-Jews before the war in Olaszliszka, Hungary; his mother’s domestic work for a Jewish family; the Jews in town and their professions which included butchers, wine merchants, and grocers; living in a Jewish-owned house; being taken in by another Jewish family, the Lowys, after the house burned down; antisemitic songs sung by villagers; seeing the terms “Jewish House” and a Star of David painted on the exterior of Jewish homes; witnessing the deportation of Jews from the town and nearby villages; the participation of gendarmes who gathered Jews into carts and prevented local citizens from interacting with the deportees; seeing a family acquaintance, Dezso Biro, being led into the carts; witnessing local leaders and villagers looting and destroying belongings from Jewish-owned homes; and his memories of some Jews returning to the area after the war.
    Interviewee
    Géza Takács
    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 09:21:54
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