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Oral history interview with Július Perger

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.438.60 | RG Number: RG-50.688.0061

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    Oral history interview with Július Perger

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Július Perger, born in 1923 in the neighborhood of Kružlovská Huta in Kružlov, Slovakia, describes the neighborhood as being mostly Roman Catholic with one Jewish family, who were poor; a glassblowing business in the area going bankrupt in the early 1930s; having Jewish classmates in middle school in the nearby town of Bardejov; the establishment of the Slovak state and being liberated from Hungary; his mother previously working as a maid in Hungary; taking a train home from Prešov in 1942 and stopping in the Slovakian village of Raslavice and seeing another train with Jews locked inside cattle cars, with a lot of people and children crying; Jews on the train saying they were forcefully taken and had to leave everything behind; arriving home and his mother was crying because the Jewish family in Kružlovská Huta had been taken away; and later telling his daughters about what happened on that train.
    Interviewee
    Július Perger
    Interviewer
    Eva Riečanská
    Date
    interview:  2016 February 11
    Geography
    creation: Bardejov (Slovakia)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Slovak
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Perger, Július, 1923-

    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 09:27:00
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