Change language

Sidebar content	Main content
Actions Displays	Susan Gerofi Remove from selection Add to selection TitleSusan Gerofi Author Susan Gerofi Object numbersl013 Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia PublisherAustralian Institute for Holocaust Studies Year of publication 1990 MaterialBook NotesInterviews with Australian Holocaust survivors for the 'Twelfth Hour Oral Testimonies Project' Description Susan Gerofi, born November 11, 1916 in Debrecen, Hungary, discusses moving to Bratislava, Slovakia in 1922; her education, which she was forced to discontinue due to antisemitism despite not being from a religious family; going into hiding with her mother in Piszian when the deportations started in 1942; marrying in 1937; being deported to Ravensbrück with her mother in December 1942; volunteering to work in the camp hospital as an ex-medical student but being given the job of carrying corpses on stretchers instead; being humiliated by the German guards and prisoners; hearing airplanes and nearby gun fire at the end of April 1945 and hoping that it was the Allies advancing, but not being sure; being given a 5kg parcel the day after the Germans fled the camp; seeing a Russian soldier come to the camp on May 1, 1945; Russian soldiers arriving two days later with supplies and a doctor; identification documents being made and distributed; being taken to a hospital in Prague, Czech Republic before returning to Bratislava; reuniting with her husband who escaped deportation by jumped out of a moving train; divorcing her husband; meeting and marrying her second husband; and immigrating to Australia in 1948.

Main content

Susan Gerofi

Add to selection

TitleSusan Gerofi

Author

Susan Gerofi

Object numbersl013

Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia

PublisherAustralian Institute for Holocaust Studies

Year of publication

1990

MaterialBook

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

Description

Susan Gerofi, born November 11, 1916 in Debrecen, Hungary, discusses moving to Bratislava, Slovakia in 1922; her education, which she was forced to discontinue due to antisemitism despite not being from a religious family; going into hiding with her mother in Piszian when the deportations started in 1942; marrying in 1937; being deported to Ravensbrück with her mother in December 1942; volunteering to work in the camp hospital as an ex-medical student but being given the job of carrying corpses on stretchers instead; being humiliated by the German guards and prisoners; hearing airplanes and nearby gun fire at the end of April 1945 and hoping that it was the Allies advancing, but not being sure; being given a 5kg parcel the day after the Germans fled the camp; seeing a Russian soldier come to the camp on May 1, 1945; Russian soldiers arriving two days later with supplies and a doctor; identification documents being made and distributed; being taken to a hospital in Prague, Czech Republic before returning to Bratislava; reuniting with her husband who escaped deportation by jumped out of a moving train; divorcing her husband; meeting and marrying her second husband; and immigrating to Australia in 1948.

AIS uses strictly necessary cookies to improve the user experience.

This AIS also uses analytical cookies.

Item request date
Expected return date
Destination