Ilona Blair Oral history interview
TitreIlona Blair Oral history interview
Call numberC006
N° d'objet7010
Lieu de publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
EditeurCaplan-Kwiet Collection
Année de publication
1980
MatérielDocument audiovisuel
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
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Interviewer: Sophie Caplan
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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.