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Charlotte Dessen testimony
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]M2018/010:001
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Charlotte Dessen testimony
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Charlotte Dessen (née Behrens), born on September 18, 1925 in Gardelegen, Germany, discusses her childhood and education; studying horticulture; her attempt to immigrate to South Africa prior to WWII; her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she stayed from May 1943 to January 1945; her work in a munitions factory and losing a finger; her transfer to Ravensbrück; and her immigration to Northern Rhodesia in 1947; and her arrival in Australia in July 1966; and settling in Chatswood, N.S.W.
[nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO] 1980-10-23 - 1980-10-23
[nb-NO]Subject[nb-NO]survivors, testimonies, forced labour
[nb-NO]Object name[nb-NO]testimonies
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[nb-NO]Credit line[nb-NO]Sydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Sophie Caplan