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Oral history interview with János Bese

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.288.81 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0081

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    Oral history interview with János Bese

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    János Bese, born in 1929 in Budapest, Hungary, describes his childhood and attending an elementary school on Maria Terézia square; his Jewish classmate, György Krausz, who lived with his family at no.1 Jázmin street; the training site for the arrow cross near Ferencváros train station; hearing rumors in 1942 that the Jews would be resettled in Madagascar; hearing antisemitic stories; his father’s sympathy for the political left; living with his family at no.14 Nagytemplom street, in the 8th district; the Jewish family who lived in the same house, the Rosenzweigs, and their 6-year-old daughter, Lili; an incident during which two former Hungarian soldiers chased away Arrow Cross Party members who were trying to take the Rosenzweig family and German soldiers intervening and ultimately taking the Rosenzweigs; speaking with Mrs. Rosenzweigs in July 1945 and finding out that her husband and daughter died during the war; his view on the origins of antisemitism in Hungary; antisemitic jokes that are popular in Hungary; witnessing the fire fight in a building on Népszínház street and Bérkocsis street, during which deserters, labor servicemen, and civilians fought German soldiers and ultimately lost when the Germans brought in a tank; and seeing some of the Hungarian resisters shot in the street.
    Interviewee
    János Bese
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Date
    interview:  2014 September 24
    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
    Bese, János, 1929-
    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 09:22:13
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