Reference Type: Aggregated Database
Author: Nathan Beyrak
Year: 2004
Title: Oral history interview with Gavril Butcovan
Date Accessed: 25.09.2014
Type of Work: video recording, interview
Keywords: Jewish Minority, Holocaust survivors, Oral History
Abstract: Gavril Butcovan, born in in, Romania, describes the reassignment of Transylvania to Hungary; the circumstances under which the Hungarian forces entered Ip; the organization of the mass murder of Romanian civilians; murders committed by the Hungarian soldiers; the deaths of many of his family members; Hungarian townspeople and local Roma gathering the corpses; participating in pre-military training; the deportation of local Jews in 1944 to Şimleu; and the poor treatment of local townspeople by policemen and soldiers.
URL: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517756
Name of Database: Oral history interviews of the Romania Documentation Project
Database Provider: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Language: Romanian