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Oral history interview with Irén Merschán Meschán

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.88 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0088

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    Oral history interview with Irén Merschán Meschán

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    Interview Summary
    Irén Merschán Meschán (Meschán Ferencné Merschán Irén), born in 1925 in the town of Rákoscsaba, Hungary (now part of Budapest, XVII. Kerület), describes a Jewish-owned grocery store next to her grandmother’s house; a large Jewish family who lived next to her aunt’s home and made pottery, and who were taken away and did not return home; hearing people on the street at night throwing stones at the Jewish-owned grocery store’s iron shutters; the store being closed down after Jews were rounded up and taken away; working on Alkotmány street in Budapest in 1942 for a company’s transportation unit and having Jewish colleagues; all Jewish workers having to wear a large yellow star; everyone being afraid of the far-right Arrow Cross Party in Hungary; Jews who did not wear stars being shot dead; getting married in 1947 and moving to the city of Baja in southern Hungary out of fear of the Russians; her husband being an injured when he was a soldier; and a Jewish safehouse near St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, where she delivered Hungarian Beigli poppy-seed rolls.
    Interviewee
    Irén Merschán Meschán
    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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    Corporate Name
    Nyilaskeresztes Párt.

    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 09:22:16
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