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Actions Displays	Clare Beutum Remove from selection Add to selection TitleClare Beutum Author Clare Beutum Object numbersl002 Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia PublisherAustralian Institute for Holocaust Studies Year of publication 1994 MaterialBook NotesInterviews with Australian Holocaust survivors for the 'Twelfth Hour Oral Testimonies Project' Description Clare Beutum, nee Essenfeld, was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. After her parents separated in 1936, she lived with her mother. The Germans marched into Budapest in March 1944, imposing restrictions on Jews and ordering Jews to wear the yellow star. The block of flats where Clare lived was designated a "Jewish house" so she did not have to move. In October Clare's father was taken away to a labour camp and then Clare was taken with her mother to a brick factory. She was allowed to return home with the other under 16 year olds. In October, 1944, her block of flats was converted into a hospital where she helped in the kitchen. In December Clare was taken to the ghetto, where her father found her. He was suffering from dysentery. The ghetto came under heavy bombardment until they were liberated in January, 1945. Following liberation Clare returned to her home, visiting her father in hospital every day until he died a few weeks later. A friend of her mother's and some of her relatives gave her meals and she sold soap at markets and old clothes on commission to pay the rent. Clare left Hungary to go to Canada in 1948, but after arriving in Paris she found she was not eligible any more as she had turned eighteen. Her friend Joe escaped from Hungary to be with her. They came to Australia together and were married here in 1950.

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Clare Beutum

Object numbersl002

Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia

PublisherAustralian Institute for Holocaust Studies

Year of publication

1994

MaterialBook

NotesInterviews with Australian Holocaust survivors for the 'Twelfth Hour Oral Testimonies Project'

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Clare Beutum, nee Essenfeld, was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. After her parents separated in 1936, she lived with her mother. The Germans marched into Budapest in March 1944, imposing restrictions on Jews and ordering Jews to wear the yellow star. The block of flats where Clare lived was designated a "Jewish house" so she did not have to move.

In October Clare's father was taken away to a labour camp and then Clare was taken with her mother to a brick factory. She was allowed to return home with the other under 16 year olds. In October, 1944, her block of flats was converted into a hospital where she helped in the kitchen. In December Clare was taken to the ghetto, where her father found her. He was suffering from dysentery. The ghetto came under heavy bombardment until they were liberated in January, 1945.

Following liberation Clare returned to her home, visiting her father in hospital every day until he died a few weeks later. A friend of her mother's and some of her relatives gave her meals and she sold soap at markets and old clothes on commission to pay the rent.

Clare left Hungary to go to Canada in 1948, but after arriving in Paris she found she was not eligible any more as she had turned eighteen. Her friend Joe escaped from Hungary to be with her. They came to Australia together and were married here in 1950.

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