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Oral history interview with Ferenc Géró

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.87 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0087

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    Oral history interview with Ferenc Géró

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ferenc Géró, born on November 17, 1925 in Kecskemét, Hungary, describes moving to the village of Tiszavárkony, Hungary at the age of 12; working as a peasant and servant to rich farmers; at the age of 14, working at a sugar factory owned by Jewish people in Szolnok, Hungary; antisemitism beginning with people singing Nazi songs, including members of the fascist Iron Guard political organization, when Transylvania was assigned from Romania to Hungary; moving to Budapest, Hungary in 1942; American air raids starting in spring 1944 and being trained to put out fires; Jews having to wear a yellow star and being put in homes that had stars; walking by a building on Wesselényi Street in Budapest that was designated for Jews and seeing a grenade thrown out of one of the windows at a German guard, and the building being empty the next day; and leaving the fire brigade unit because they had become fascists.
    Interviewee
    Ferenc Géró
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2015 September 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hungarian
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Géró, Ferenc, 1925-
    Corporate Name
    Garda de Fier

    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 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 09:22:15
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