Hungary in the Centropa Archive
Although less than 40,000 Jews are officially registered, experts estimate there are between 80,000 to 100,000 Jews in Budapest today, making it the largest and liveliest community in Central Europe. Three day schools, more than a dozen functioning synagogues, and a half dozen youth clubs are all well attended.
All our Hungarian interviews were conducted in Budapest. That's because the overwhelming majority of Jews in the provinces were deported to their deaths in 1944. Most of those who returned to Hungary chose to settle in Budapest, so there was little reason for us to work in Szeged, Debrecen and other cities.
We also conducted Hungarian-language interviews in Novi Sad and Subotica in Serbia, in southern Slovakia and in Transylvania in Romania. Elderly Jews in these communities still speak Hungarian as their mother tongue.
Centropa's interview methodology was created by Eszter Andor and Dora Sardi, who headed a team of nearly a dozen interviewers, editors, transcribers, transcribers and scanners. Together, they secured more than 200 interviews and digitized 5,000 pictures.
Films
Education Resources
Thematic websites
Title | Language |
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Mihaly Strausz, Vera’s uncle | English |
Vera Farkas on vacation | English |
Miklos Farkas, Vera’s father photo on the registration form | English |
Vera Farkas with her cousins | English |
Miklos Farkas, Vera’s father in his workplace with colleagues | English |
Formal class portrait of Vera Farkas | English |
Solyom | English |
Miklos Farkas, Vera’s father | English |
The wedding picture of Miklos and Szeren Farkas, Vera’s parents | English |
Vera Farkas with her parents | English |
Farkas | English |
The little Vera Farkas with her family | English |
Farkas | English |
Gyorgyne Preisz | English |
Preisz | English |
Ervin Fenyes | English |
Margit Toth, Laszlo Toth and Erzsebet Barsony | English |
The monument of the Bauer family in the Jewish cemetery in Rakoskeresztur | English |