Item 17: Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia ; Eugen Klein interviewed by Anita Fisher, 1991

MLOH 500/51

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21/06/1991

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

997149

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/51

1 sound cassette (1 hr.)

Eugen Klein was born in Presov (Czechoslovakia) in 1929. In 1942, his family was deported to Deblin ghetto in Poland. Eugen was put to work at Deblin labour camp building military airfields for a company called Bauleitung der Luftwaffe. The ghetto was liquidated and bodies were buried in a mass grave. In 1944 Klein was taken to Czestochowa to work in a munitions factory. In 1945 he was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and was kept there until it was liberated by the American Army in April 1945.

At the end of the war, Eugen went back to Presov and studied to be a furrier. He emigrated to Australia in 1949.

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Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 26.