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Oral history interview with Irén Tóth

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.42 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0042

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    Oral history interview with Irén Tóth

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Irén Tóth (Tóth Józsefné Horvath Irén), born in 1926 in Hungary, describes her good relationship with the prewar Jewish population of Gebe (modern day Nyírkáta); her father’s work as a miller at a mill owned by a Jewish man; her father's professional and friendly relationship with the local Jewish population, which caused suspicion by the local gendarmerie; the burning of her family home and the mill in the mid 1940s; antisemitic acts; being the target of violence as a result of her family's friendly relationship with the Jewish community; the deportation of the Jewish population from Gebe; the case of an escaped Jewish family living in a vineyard who were later caught and taken to the Nyíregyháza ghetto; an incident in which she entered the Mátészalka ghetto to recover a bicycle; the deportation of Jews at Mátészalka; and how no Jewish survivors returned to Gebe after the war.
    Interviewee
    Irén Tóth
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2012 June 07
    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
    Tóth, Irén.

    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 09:21:57
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