Ilona Blair Oral history interview
TitleIlona Blair Oral history interview
Call numberC006
Object number7010
Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
PublisherCaplan-Kwiet Collection
Year of publication
1980
MaterialAudio-visual material
NotesInterview hardcopy notes and photocopies of documents also held including travel tickets, displaced person's card and document to travel to Sweden.
Interviewer: Sophie Caplan
CD
Interviewer: Sophie Caplan
CD
Description
Ilona Blair nee Reichman was born on 12th December 1929 in Uzhorod, Ukraine. Ilona spent time in Auschwitz (May 1944), Neuengamme in Hamburg (July 1944) and Bergen-Belsen (March 1945). She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. In June she left for Sweden and then onto France. She arrived in Australia in 1951.