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Oral history interview with Edit Dánay Kállai

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.93 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0093

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    Oral history interview with Edit Dánay Kállai

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edit Dánay Kállai (Kállai Istvanne Dánay Edit), born June 19, 1933, describes growing up in Budapest, Hungary; her suspicion that her Catholic family had Jewish roots; her father, who worked in the post office but was inducted into the army in 1942, sent to the front, and was very sick when he returned home; the three families in the Kallai’s house, including a woman and her son Janchi Bartos (he belonged to a partisan group and had a Jewish fiancée, Zsuzsa); the Arrow Cross; the many partisans who saved Jewish people from the ghetto; stories of people trying to rescue Jews; her friend Eva Biro, who wore a yellow star and attended school until the Arrow Cross took power in October 1944; watching as Jews were lined up in the Budapest neighborhoods of Rakospalota (XV. Kerület) and New Pest (IV. Kerület) to be taken away on wagons and seeing people beat, kick, push, and scream at the Jews that they were thieves and crooks and were ruining Hungary; having nightmares for months after witnessing this; knowing of a woman who committed suicide; hearing that Jews were taken to a movie theater, where they were tortured; the Kallai family taking food to the ghetto as long as its gates were open; going to the ghetto after it was emptied and visiting her former house on Vaci Street, which was one of many that had been bombed; how the Arrow Cross men had taken all valuables, including paintings, carpets, and china from homes in the ghetto; the Russian take over on January 7, 1945; moving with her family to Tolna, Hungary; and the very few Jews who returned after the war ended.
    Interviewee
    Edit Dánay Kállai
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2015 September 12
    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 09:22:18
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