An interview with Menakhem Mendel Vayngarten, born in Munkacs in 1928, regarding his experiences in the underground in Hungary and Romania
An interview with Menakhem Mendel Vayngarten, born in Munkacs in 1928, regarding his experiences in the underground in Hungary and Romania
An interview with Menakhem Mendel Vayngarten, born in Munkacs in 1928, regarding his experiences in the underground in Hungary and Romania
Tape 1:
Meeting with three Warsaw Ghetto refugees in Budapest; issuing forged certificates for the refugees; contacting a guide in Romania; capture by Romanian border guard soldiers; torture and interrogations;
pause in recording; music and songs; interview continues from 00:58:22:
deportation to Hungarian territory; arrest by Hungarian soldiers; transfer to Kisvelence; handed over to investigators in civilian clothes; torture and interrogations; the situation of refugees in Romania; transfer to a prison; escape from prison; escape from Hungary;
Tape 2:
music and songs;
interview continues from 00:48:20:
working in a restaurant as a dishwasher; arrest by the Romanian police (see tape 1); torture and police interrogations regarding the other members of the underground (probably going over photographs); military service in Eretz Israel after aliya; being sent back to Hungary (by the police);
songs (until the end of the recording).
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item Id
10960127
Type of material
Interview(s)
Memoirs
Music
Poems/Songs
File Number
11938
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.33 - Testimonies, Diaries and Memoirs Collection
Date of Creation - earliest
19/12/1980
Date of Creation - latest
19/12/1980
Name of Submitter
מאיה אברהם
Original
NO
Connected to Item
O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust