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Oral history interview with Rózsa Surán Desztler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.73 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0073

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    Oral history interview with Rózsa Surán Desztler

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    Interview Summary
    Rózsa Desztler (Desztler Istvanne Surán Rózsa), born in 1925 in Budapest, Hungary, describes her father, who was a prisoner of war in WWI in Russia and married a Russian woman; her father’s Jewish friends, including József Englender and Kálmánné Szladek; being forced to move to Svábhegy (XII district of Budapest) by German officers; her brother’s arrest by the Gestapo for anti-state activities in 1940; her numerous Jewish friends and classmates, including Ági Labesz; witnessing several episodes of antisemitism beginning in 1943; Jews having to wear yellow stars; her attempts to help her brother and father after they were arrested; being pregnant during that time; the persecution of her family for their ties to communism; escaping their home and going to János hospital; living in a yellow star house on the corner of Podmaniczky and Bajza streets; and witnessing a deportation of Jews.
    Interviewee
    Rózsa Desztler
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2014 May 20
    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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    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 09:22:10
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