ValUES - Szekeres-Varsa Vera (Hungary)

Szekeres-Varsa Vera (*1933) egy értelmiségi, zsidó származású család sarja. Szüleivel Budapesten, a Nemzetközi Gettóban, majd pedig álnéven bujkálva élte túl a Vészkorszakot. Gimnáziumba járt, amikor el kellett hagynia lakását. Budapest ostroma alatt egy nyilaskeresztes csoport székhelye mellett bujkált családjával. A látottak örökre befolyásolták életét, örökre elkötelezték a diszkrimináció elleni harc mellett.

(Interjú: Tarafás Imre, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem)


Vera Szekeres-Varsa (born 1933) is the descendant of an intellectual family of Jewish origin. She and her parents survived the Holocaust in Budapest, in the International Ghetto and later in hiding under a pseudonym. She was in high school when she had to leave her apartment, and during the siege of Budapest she hid with her family near the headquarters of an Arrow Cross group. What she saw had a lasting impact on her life and made her forever committed to the fight against discrimination.

(Interview: Imre Tarafás, Eötvös Loránd University)


Val.UE.s is an EU-funded project that aims at fostering a common reflection on the effects that ethnic, religious and gender discriminations implemented by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in Europe and in European-ruled Overseas Territories had on people’s personal lives.

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