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Oral history interview with Steven Fenves

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.85 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0494

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    Oral history interview with Steven Fenves

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    Interview Summary
    Steven Fenves, born in 1931 in Subotica, Serbia, discusses his childhood and the Subotica Jewish community; the day when Germany attacked Yugoslavia; the Hungarian occupation of Yugoslavia and the confiscation of his family's property; being forced to quarter Hungarian troops in his family's apartment; antisemitic laws and discrimination against Croats and Serbs during the Hungarian occupation; the changes that occurred when Germany occupied Hungary; his father's deportation to a village called Bačka Topola; being forced into the Subotica ghetto; his deportation to Auschwitz and being separated from his mother, whom he never saw again; life in the children's barracks at Auschwitz; being picked to be a translator because of his knowledge of German; his involvement in the black market at Auschwitz; his deportation to Niederorschel, a subcamp of Buchenwald; a death march from Niederorschel to Buchenwald; the liberation of Buchenwald by American forces; returning to Subotica and reuniting with his sister and father; his father's death three months after his return; returning to school in Subotica and life in Yugoslavia under communism; going to school in Paris, France; and immigrating to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Steven J. Fenves Ph.D.
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2005 March 25
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    9 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Steven Fenves on March 25, 2005. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in April 2005.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:03:11
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