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997217
  • Title
    Item 14: Holocaust survivors from Hungary ; Piroska Eckstein interviewed by Anita Fisher, 1990
  • Call number
    MLOH 500/133-134
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date
    14/09/1990
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    997217
  • Issue Copy
    Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/133-134
  • Physical Description
    2 sound cassettes (2 hrs.)
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
    Piroska Eckstein, nee Laszlo, was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1920. One brother and her father died before the war. After the German occupation of Budapest she moved with her mother to a designated 'Jewish house'.

    Piroska was working in a factory when she was picked up by Arrow Cross soldiers and transported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, in Germany. The camp was overcrowded and there was little food. She worked shovelling snow, unloading coal from wagons and in a sand mine. Piroska was moved to Penig, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, to work in the airplane parts factory.

    The camp was evacuated in April 1945 and the inmates were taken on a long forced march. Piroska escaped with some others to Czechoslovakia. When the war ended she returned home to Hungary and was reunited with her mother in Budapest.

    Piroska was married in 1946. Her first child was born in 1948. She left Hungary in 1949 and arrived in Australia in 1950.
  • Copying Conditions
    In copyright:
    Approval for reproduction required: Contact Senior Librarian (Team Leader), Original Materials - Manuscripts
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
  • Finding Aids
    Log of interview available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
  • Alphanumeric designations
    Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 72.
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