Overview
- Interview Summary
- José Moskovits, born in 1926 in Hungary, discusses being sent to a labor battalion during the Holocaust; escaping during the deportation and joining the resistance in Budapest; being captured and jailed in the Arrow Cross jail in Budapest; the Soviet liberation of Budapest in January 1945; becoming the leader of "Dror Habonim" and helping Jewish survivors go to British Palestine; being arrested by the British in 1946 and jailed in Cyprus until the end of the mandate; volunteering in the Golani brigade during the War of Independence in Israel; being injured and discharged with honors in 1949; immigrating to Argentina in 1953 with his wife Halina Parys Feldberg; opening a law office in Buenos Aires in 1958 to help Holocaust survivors of all South America with repair claims against Germany; contributing to international efforts to capture Nazi war criminals; being appointed president of the Argentine Jewish Association of Survivors of the Nazi Persecution in 1967; his work organizing reunions and commemorations of Holocaust survivors; living in Israel from 1976 to 1978; the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379; and closing his office in 2011.
- Interviewee
- José Moskovits
- Interviewer
- Regina Schmiedeberg
Eva Eisenstaedt - Date
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interview:
2005 September-2005 November
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Regina Schmiedeberg and Eva Eisenstaedt
Physical Details
- Extent
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7 videocassettes (MiniDV).
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Escapes. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Jewish lawyers. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. Jews--Persecutions--Hungary. Lawyers--Argentina. Nazi hunters. Prisons--Cyprus. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary. World War, 1939-1945--Reparations. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Hungary--Budapest. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Argentina--Emigration and immigration. Budapest (Hungary) Buenos Aires (Argentina) Cyprus. Hungary--History--1918-1945. Israel.
- Personal Name
- Moskovits, José.
- Corporate Name
- Israel. Army
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Regina Schmiedeberg and Eva Eisenstaedt donated their oral history interview with José Moskovits to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch in March 2015. Ms. Schmiedeberg and Ms. Eisenstaedt, executive assistants to Mr. Moskovits, conducted the interview in 2005 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at Mr. Moskovits's law office on Uriburu street 272 which opened in 1968 and disbanded in 2011. Technical support for the interview was provided by Ramiro Gonzalo Suárez and Eva Natascha Schmiedeberg.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:34:43
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