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Oral history interview with Frigyes Rotharidesz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.91 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0091

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    Oral history interview with Frigyes Rotharidesz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Frigyes Rotharidesz, born in 1934 in Budapest, Hungary, describes living in Budapest’s District VII on the corner of István road and Nefelejcs street, in a house next to a synagogue; living in a neighborhood of lower middle-class people, both Jewish and Christian; three or four Jewish families living in his building; going to elementary school on Hernád street in District VII; discrimination starting strongly in 1944 and Jewish people having to move to star houses; Arrow Cross Party soldiers taking away Jews and putting them in a crammed apartment, then Christians moving into the Jewish people’s homes; never again seeing his best friend, who was Jewish; and seeing dead bodies lying all around a synagogue on Dohány Street.
    Interviewee
    Frigyes Rotharidesz
    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

    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 09:22:17
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