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Oral history interview with Júlia Kardos Fogler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.76 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0076

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    Oral history interview with Júlia Kardos Fogler

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Júlia Fogler (Folger Imkene Kardos Júlia), born in 1924 in Budapest, Hungary, describes her Christian mother and Jewish father; her father’s work as a printer for the printing firms Atheneum and Glóbusz; being well informed about current affairs because of her father’s involvement with the Zionist movement; her Jewish classmate Kati Schmidt; the hostility of their neighbors because her family had a good income; the rise of antisemitism; her family’s decision to move to Pesterzsébet (part of district 20 in Budapest) to her aunt’s house circa 1942; anti-Jewish propaganda; a neighbor who was part of the Arrow Cross Party; her father having to wear the yellow star and being taken away one day while he was on his way to work; the yellow star house her father lived in on Pannónia street and visiting him there on two occasions; being more frightened of the Arrow Cross soldiers than the German soldiers; her brother’s escape from the levente (paramilitary youth organizations); being constantly harassed by the Arrow Cross Party members; hiding with her mother in a small pit covered with planks; her mother deciding to move to her hometown, Zámoly, Hungary; being regarded as Jews in Zámoly, which was dangerous, and moving to Székesfehérvár then back to Budapest; the jobs of the Jews in Zámoly and hearing about their deportation; getting married to a Jewish man whose entire family was killed and his family house in Kisk Kiskőrös was destroyed; keeping a diary during the war, even when she was hiding, but losing it during their moves; and how after the Germans came in, she invented a code system to write down her thoughts or German jokes.
    Interviewee
    Júlia Fogler
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2014 May 21
    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

    Personal Name
    Fogler, Júlia, 1924-

    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 09:22:11
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