Jose Peteri (M / Hungary, 1942), Holocaust survivor

Jose Peteri (M / Hungary, 1942), Holocaust survivor

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Biography

Jose Peteri was born March 31, 1942 in Budapest, Hungary. His father, Joseph Zinger, died as a Hungarian soldier on the Russian front. He survived with his mother under false identity. Emigrated to Chile in 1957.

USHMM Oral History Collection

José Peteri, born in Budapest, Hungary on March 31, 1942, describes his biological father, Joseph Zinger, who died as a Hungarian soldier on the Russian front; living with his mother in various homes because their apartment had been bombed; being taken with his mother and aunt during a roundup and being separated from his mother; how his mother escaped with the help of a man on the street; how his mother found him in a ghetto; how his mother’s cousin, who was in the resistance and wore an SS uniform, got her false papers; how a significant number of his family did not survive; not fitting in with the communist regime in Hungary; how his mother married Gaspar Schlesinger in 1946; escaping Hungary in 1957; going to Vienna, Austria; being helped by a police officer in Vienna; immigrating to Chile; going to Argentina when he was 19 years old and returning to Chile; and his life in Chile.