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Oral history interview with José Deutsch

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.294.16 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0016

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    Oral history interview with José Deutsch

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jose Deutsch, born on November 8, 1931 in Bucharest, Romania, describes his family and moving to Oradea, Romania, a predominantly Jewish city where they lived until 1942; his mother’s conversion to Judaism before being married; the relocation of his step brother to England in 1938; life before the war, including his family’s Jewish traditions, his father’s occupation, his education, living conditions, neighbors, and his friends; the antisemitic events that affected him; the impact of his brother-in-law’s deportation to a Russian labor camp in 1941; moving to Budapest, Hungary with his family in 1942; the relocation of his sister, aunt, and uncle to Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Theresienstadt; the fate of his pediatrician and school principal; the antisemitic laws; his father’s detainment and deportation to the Kecskemet ghetto; declaring himself a Christian to avoid deportation to a death camp; fleeing with his mother to a farm in northern Hungary and their lives there; his mother changing his birth certificate Mosaic to Roman-Catholic; visiting his father in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary; his mother’s successful attempt to get his father released; living in Gizella 32; his father’s experience avoiding deportation to a forced labor camp; encountering Russian soldier at his family’s residence in January 1945; life after the war; the help he received from the Joint; his Bar Mitzvah in 1944 and the theft of his tallit; his experiences under a communist government; moving to Vienna, Austria to be with his sister; his parents’ relocation to Vienna a year later; immigrating to Chile at the outbreak of the Korean War; and visiting his home country years later.
    Interviewee
    José Deutsch
    Interviewer
    Sonia Brodsky
    Date
    interview:  2010 October 28
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fundación Memoria Viva

    Physical Details

    Language
    Spanish
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 digital files : MOV.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to the donor.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Deutsch, José, 1931-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Fundación Memoria Viva donated the interview with José Deutsch conducted October 28, 2010 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch in May 2012. The interview is part of the Voces de la Shoá oral history collection.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:27:59
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