Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Oral history interview with János Balogh

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.89 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0089

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Oral history interview with János Balogh

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    János Balogh, born in 1930 in Budapest, Hungary, describes growing up on Nagy Diófa street in District VII (the city’s former Jewish quarter) near Klauzál square; many Jewish people living in his building and going to his school; Jewish friends putting a kippah on him and taking him to a synagogue; not knowing his father; his building landlord being Jewish and an attorney, and later hearing the landlord was executed on the Danube bank; their apartment being inside the Budapest ghetto and having to move with other Christians to a new apartment; hearing screams and shouting and shooting; two members of the far-right Arrow Cross Party coming to their building and asking if Jewish people were in the cellar; the building caretaker looking out to the street and seeing women and children lying dead in the snow, and the bodies staying there for days; Germans leaving and Russians arriving; bombings occurring while they were in the cellar, and their apartment was hit; and the bodies of Jewish people crammed into a shop.
    Interviewee
    János Balogh
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2015 September 11
    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.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Balogh, János, 1930-
    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
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn524561

    Additional Resources

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us