Tag #133421 - Interview #101072 (Zsuzsa Diamantstein)

The reannexing [the so called ‘Hungarian era’] [8] came and my stepfather was soon laid off. There was a law [the numerus clausus in Hungary] [9] in the 1940s about I don't know exactly how many percent of the clerks could be Jewish. Instead of divide the sum between dad and himself, or at least giving something to dad, the general manager kept the whole sum for himself. Dad remained jobless. I think he worked in 1940, but in 1941 he became jobless. It was a terrible thing because we weren't rich, and my parents had no money. Dad did some book-keeping at home for a gas station owner then, who wasn't Jewish, and we managed to get by somehow.