Item 04: Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia ; Gertrude Davis interviewed by Gilda Manor, 1990

MLOH 500/22-23

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16/05/1990

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

996798

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/22-23

2 sound cassettes (2 hrs.)

Gertrude Davis, nee Kovacs, was born 1925 in Levice, Czechoslovakia. She was sent to Auschwitz with her family in 1944 where her father was executed and her sister died of scarlet fever. She was then sent to Reichenbach (Germany) with her mother for forced labour until 1945. At the end of the war she returned to Hungary with her mother, before they both emigrated to the UK. She married Errol Davis in the UK and emigrated to Australia with him in 1955.

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Log of interview available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 13.