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Oral history interview with Tamás Molnár

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.90 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0090

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    Oral history interview with Tamás Molnár

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tamás Molnár, born in 1933 in Budapest, Hungary, describes living in a one-room apartment with his parents in Budapest’s District XI in a villa quarter; growing up Jewish; his father riding on a motorbike to sell butter for a dairy factory; his father working for labor service in 1942 in the town of Dabas, Hungary; a few children in higher classes at school calling Jewish students names; the far-right Arrow Cross Party holding meetings near his Budapest neighborhood of Kelenföld (in XI. Kerület) in 1943 and 1944, and emphasizing the Hungarian identity and firing up hatred with statements about foreigners and undocumented people; other parents signing up children for Hitler-Jugend (Levente); German soldiers and tanks and military cars coming in spring of 1944; Jewish people having to move to Jewish houses, with Christians taking over their property; 15-20 percent of residents of Budapest being Jewish; having to wear yellow stars and feeling humiliated; hours of shopping being restricted for Jewish people; his parents being taken to labor service; his mother being taken to a factory; both of his parents escaping and returning home; his father getting work driving a Red Cross truck and getting the family Christian papers and different names; his father being arrested and taken to headquarters of Arrow Cross guards and beaten; and constantly moving around to new homes.
    Interviewee
    Tamás Molnár
    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.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Molnár, Tamás, 1933-

    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 09:22:17
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