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Oral history interview with Eva Bentley

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.31 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0031

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    Oral history interview with Eva Bentley

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Eva Bentley (née Wahrman), born in Budapest, Hungary, describes her Jewish family with a 500-year history in Hungary; antisemitic incidents with a teacher and her fellow students at public school; the stressful experience of attending an elite, experimental Jewish Gymnasium; the hardships of living under the Horthy regime, the Szalasi and Arrow Cross persecutions; the abuses during the Russian occupation; how after the German occupation in 1944 Eva and her family had to move into a “yellow star” house; her stepfather being deported to a labor camp; her experiences during an SS massacre, when she was shot and her mother was bayoneted; surviving in a primitive Jewish hospital facility; a number of instances of aid by non-Jews given by clergy and Hungarian police, who saved her and her family; how a Christian uncle saved her aunt and 29 other Jews in hiding; liberation by the Russians; getting married; and immigrating with her husband to the United States in 1956.
    Interviewee
    Eva Bentley
    Date
    interview:  1985 March 18
    interview:  1985 April 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    5 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bentley, Eva.
    Corporate Name
    Nyilaskeresztes Párt.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Eva Bentley in Philadelphia, PA on March 18 & April 2, 1985. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on September 22, 1998.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:36:05
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