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My mother, my aunt, my grandmother, my parents and I all ended up in a yellow-star house. My mother, together with my aunt, was driven out of the yellow-star house to the brick works in Obuda. From there they walked to the Austrian-Hungarian border. At the border, a Christian priest told them that anyone waiting for a Schutzpass should stand aside. They stood to one side, and were brought back to Budapest by train, ending up in a yellow-star house, from where they were liberated.
One day, my father showed up in the yellow-star house. He was dressed as a peasant, had grown a mustache, was wearing a peasant jacket, and told me to call him Uncle Jozsi, and to stay 10-15 meters behind him. That’s how he got me on foot to somewhere near Nyugati Train Station, into a protected house. From there, I ended up in the ghetto, and that’s where the Russians found me with my maternal grandmother, when they came and liberated us.
One day, my father showed up in the yellow-star house. He was dressed as a peasant, had grown a mustache, was wearing a peasant jacket, and told me to call him Uncle Jozsi, and to stay 10-15 meters behind him. That’s how he got me on foot to somewhere near Nyugati Train Station, into a protected house. From there, I ended up in the ghetto, and that’s where the Russians found me with my maternal grandmother, when they came and liberated us.
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Budapest
Hungary
Interview
Peter Reisz