The Eyewitness to History video library was created to enable audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This video was created from a live digital program, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors, recorded on April 27, 2022. It features Peter Gorog, who was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1941. The Hungarian government enacted increasingly oppressively antisemitic laws and in 1942, Peter’s father was sent to occupied Ukraine as part of a forced labor battalion and never returned. After the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Peter and his mother Olga briefly found refuge with a family friend until a neighbor denounced them. After being arrested and jailed, Olga escaped and returned to Peter. They stayed in an internationally protected apartment before being forced to move into the Budapest ghetto, which was liberated by the Soviet Army in January 1945.
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2 окт 2024
