Szilágyi-Pető Collection

Szilágyi-Pető Collection 

Szilágyi-Pető Collection 

In 2011, 35 interview transcripts were deposited at the 20th Század Hangja Archive and Research Group. These include ten family group discussions, sometimes with two to four people, and several individual interviews recorded independently, i.e. without the involvement of other family members. The total length of the existing transcripts is approx. 1,800 typed pages. In the conversations, family stories are told, usually starting from the parents' youth to the time of the interview, focusing on the war and the Holocaust. In almost all cases, the interviewee's various illnesses are discussed in connection with their personal life history. The transcripts are supplemented by a research plan, scholarship contracts, reports, lecture drafts, study outlines, copies of publications, foreign language articles, bibliographies and other research documentation. Unfortunately, the audio recording of the interviews is not available. The conversations and their analysis were presented by the researchers in a few scientific publications around the time of the regime change, but the collection is awaiting further elaboration.