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Oral history interview with Sándor Bacsúr

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.37 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0037

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    Oral history interview with Sándor Bacsúr

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sándor Bacsúr, born in 1935 in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, describes the presence of Jewish families in his community; actions taken against the local Jewish population, including the order to wear the Star of David badge and the destruction of a synagogue; moving to a new house in 1944 as a result of the establishment of a Jewish ghetto in his neighborhood; hearing adults in his family express concern about the fate of the community’s Jews; an incident in which a wealthy Jewish woman was tortured into revealing where she hid her valuables; the relocation of the community’s Jews to the ghetto in Balassagyarmat; the relocation of Jews from the surrounding villages to the Óváros Square ghetto; the deportation of Jews from the ghettos; guards who were stationed around the ghettos; non-Jews who moved into the homes and stores of Jews; and artwork he created depicting the destruction of the synagogue and his sadness at what happened to Hungarian Jews.
    Interviewee
    Sándor Bacsúr
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2012 June 05
    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

    Personal Name
    Bacsúr, Sándor.

    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 09:21:55
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