Name
Varga, Béla (Interviewee)
Stein, Rose (Rózsi) (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Béla Varga, 1976
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Béla Varga, 1976
Abstract
Youth and family background, political education; impressions of Hungarian statesmen; Hungarian and Polish anti-Nazi resistance; rescue of Allied prisoners of war; resettlement of Polish refugees in Hungary; Katyn Forest massacre; anti-Semitism in Hungary and its political consequences
Collection Name
Hungarian project
Subjects
Government executives--Hungary; Clergy; World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland; Political refugees; Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940; Antisemitism; Hungary Politics and government 1918-1945; Hungary Foreign relations 1918-1945; Varga, Béla
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1976
Note (Biographical)
Priest, Speaker of Hungarian Parliament
Note
Interviewed by Rose Stein on April 5, September 27, October 4 and 18, 1975; May 5, 1976
Note (Provenance)
Béla Varga, Gift 1976
Language
Hungarian
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record
14369647
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-cqc1-4c16
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.