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Tibor Vajda
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Tibor Vajda
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]sl054
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Australian Institute for Holocaust Studies
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1990
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
NotesInterviews with Australian Holocaust survivors for the 'Twelfth Hour Oral Testimonies Project'
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Tibor Vajda, born January 26, 1924 in Budapest, Hungary, describes growing up in Dombóvár, Hungary before the war; experiencing antisemitism as a child; witnessing the beginning of the war; living under German occupation; working in Jolsva, Hungary (possibly Jelsava, Slovakia) as a forced laborer; escaping from forced labor and returning to Hungary; obtaining false papers; joining the resistance movement; surviving the war in hiding; marrying his fiancée with whom he stayed together throughout the war; traveling to Austria post-war; and immigrating and establishing his life in Australia in 1957.