Watch the clip of the testimony of István Kádár.
István Kádár was born as István Krausz in 1921 in Miske. He completed his elementary studies there before moving to Kecskemét for secondary studies. During World War 2 he was conscripted to forced labor and sent to Bor, former Yugoslavia. He was forced to do labour service in Lager Berlin and was deported to the concentration camps of Barth, Oranienburg-Heinkelwerke and then Ravensbrück. He was liberated by the British Army. Almost every member of his close family was killed in the Holocaust. After the war he started to work in commerce and finished the Economic and Technical Academy. As an economist, he participated in the development of the Hungarian economic reforms. He is married, and has two daughters. His interview was recorded in 2000, in Budapest, Hungary.