Item 01: Holocaust survivors from Hungary ; Elizabeth Denny interviewed by Caroline Haski, 1988

MLOH 500/131

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23/11/1988

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

997210

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/131

1 sound cassette (1 hr.)

Elizabeth Denny, nee Gluck, was born in Füzesgyarmat, Hungary in 1910. She was married in 1935 and lived in Abadszalok, until the occupation of Hungary by the Germans. Elizabeth was sent with her daughter to the Kunhegyes ghetto for 6 weeks then to work on a farm in Austria.

Elizabeth was later transported to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, where she worked until the camp was liberated by the Americans in April 1945.

Repatriated to Hungary, Elizabeth found some relatives still living in Budapest. Her husband had died in a labour camp. She worked for Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) and remarried in 1947. After the 1956 revolution Elizabeth left Hungary, arriving in Sydney in 1957. She married Mr Denny, her third husband, in 1957.

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Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 53.