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Paul Szasz - 29 Jul. 1976
- Name
- Paul Szasz
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 29 Jul. 1976
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Paul Szasz
- Number
- OH 80
- OH 81
- Subject
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Concentration camps
- Communism
- Farmers
- Communities
- Synagogues
- Interview Date
- 29 Jul. 1976
- Quantity
- 4 cassettes (2 copies)
- 2 WAV files
- Interviewer
- Larry Troster
- Total Running Time
- OH80_001: 45.29 minutes OH80_002: 44.23 minutes OH81: 44.20 minutes
- Conservation
- OH 080 and 081 were both damaged (tape snapped). They were sent out and were repaired and digitized in 2014.
- Copied to cassette in August 2003
- Digitzed in June 2014
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Paul Szasz was born in 1926 in Tiszakeszi, Hungary, and was a Holocaust survivor. He came from a family of traditonal farmers. During the Second World War, he was drafted into the Hungarian Labor Service System (Munkaszolgalat) and was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. Paul escaped Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and immigrated to Canada. With the aid of a loan from the Jewish Colonization Association, Paul purchased a farm in Beamsville, Ontario. Paul went on to become an active member of Beamsville's Jewish community and particpated in the establishment of the community's first congregation in 1966.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Geographic Access
- Beamsville (Ont.)
- Hungary
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 80, OH 81 - Szasz\OH80_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 80, OH 81 - Szasz\OH80_002_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 80, OH 81 - Szasz\OH81_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories