Tag #156743 - Interview #78355 (Mrs. Gábor Révész)

Of course, that changed after the German occupation. I never experienced anti-Semitism at all. Prior to 1944 I knew nothing about it. Needless to say, I knew that Hitler existed and that he was dangerous and all that. But I wasn’t concerned. The entire Hungarian Jewry didn’t take him seriously.  I think this was because we somehow felt that what had happened, first in Germany and then in Poland, couldn’t happen in Hungary, because in Hungary the Jews were completely assimilated, and they were Hungarian. In short, there was no sense of danger until the German occupation. There really wasn’t.