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Oral history interview with Ilona Vitányi

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.31 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0031

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    Oral history interview with Ilona Vitányi

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    Interview Summary
    Ilona Vitányi (Vitányi Belane Kassai Ilona), born in 1918, discusses her friendships with Jewish neighbors and classmates during her childhood in Olaszliszka, Hungary; her neighbor who used a scarf to cover up her Star of David badge; seeing horse carts carrying bags and bundles on her train ride back from another town; seeing local Jewish women and girls being taken away in wagon carts; a Hungarian civilian who was guarding the carts; delivering a basket of eggs to her Jewish friend, Aranka Kohn, who was not allowed to leave her home; Aranka’s gift of three red scarves in exchange for the eggs; the threat from a gendarme who had witnessed the exchange; hearing about the looting of Jewish belongings; one of the Kohn children who returned after the war and reopened her father’s store; and Jews who returned to the area after the war and demanded the restitution of their homes.
    Interviewee
    Ilona Vitányi
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2012 January 20
    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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