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Oral history interview with George Bauer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.2 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0002

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    Oral history interview with George Bauer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dr. George Bauer describes his parents and sister; growing up in Budapest, Hungary; his father’s occupation as a merchant; the slow changes in Hungary; restrictions being put into place in 1938; Jews struggling to find work and his father trying to help when he could; living in an apartment building; the fascist party torturing Jewish students; attending a Jewish school; the German occupation beginning in March 1944; the director at his school telling him not to return to school; being forced to go to Russia and Yugoslavia to work in copper mines, where the conditions were terrible, and many of them were gunned down; the Iron Cross putting Jews in big apartments and taking their wealth; working in a winery, which was a Jewish labor service; people being drafted into the army; digging trenches; Jews being put into ghettos; the scarcity of food; his father escaping back to the winery; his mother living in a Swiss protected house; being hidden with others by a major his father knew; the ghetto being liberated on January 21, 1945; the death of his brother-in-law; returning to their home; being sent to take the corpses to the cemetery and clean up; receiving packages from America; not wanting to believe the rumors about Auschwitz; and hoping that people will prevent this from ever happening again.
    Interviewee
    George Bauer
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1990 July

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bauer, George.
    Corporate Name
    Nyilaskeresztes Párt.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with George Bauer with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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