Elizabeth Denny
TitleElizabeth Denny
Author
Object numbersl007
Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Year of publication
1988
MaterialBook
NotesInterviews with Australian Holocaust survivors for the 'Twelfth Hour Oral Testimonies Project'
Description
Elizabeth Denny, born March 14, 1910 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses her youth; marrying in 1935; her husband dying in a labor camp in 1943; working from 1939 to 1943; being sent to the Kunhegyes ghetto for six weeks; being transported to Austria, where she worked on a farm; being transported to Bergen-Belsen; being put on a train when the Americans were thought to be approaching; being liberated by the Americans on April 13, 1945; going back to her village but being unable to stay, so she returned back to Budapest; working for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; leaving Hungary after the 1956 revolution; immigrating to Australia; marrying in 1957; and her family members who perished during the Holocaust.