Piroska Eckstein
TitoloPiroska Eckstein
Autore
Numero oggettosl009
Luogo di pubblicazioneSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Anno di pubblicazione
1990
MaterialeBook
NotesInterviews with Australian Holocaust survivors for the 'Twelfth Hour Oral Testimonies Project'
Descrizione
Piroska Eckstein, born November 11, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses the deaths in her family growing up; the unbelievable nature of the tales of atrocities that she heard; the start of the Nazi occupation in March 1944; leaving her home to live in a Jewish house; working in a factory; the Arrow Cross taking her to Ravensbrück; working at the camp shoveling snow; being taken to a labor camp outside Penig, where she manufactured airplane parts; the evacuation of the camp on April 13, 1945; escaping with others; reaching Czechoslovakia on May 8, 1945; returning to Hungary; reuniting with her mother; marrying in 1946; having a child in 1948; and immigrating to Australia in 1949.