Item 22: Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia ; Alex Odze interviewed by Gilda Manor, 1990

MLOH 500/68-69

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23/05/1990

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

997243

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/68-69

2 sound cassettes (2 hrs.)

Alex Odze was born in Krasny Brod (Czechoslovakia) in 1921. In April 1942 he was transported to Majdanek, Poland, and put to work building a concentration camp. Then in July, Alex was taken to Auschwitz where he was private horse hand to an SS chief. The Russians came into Auschwitz in January 1945 and he went off in a horse and cart to Prague. Due to bombings he fled to Mauthausen and then Gunskirchen concentration camps in Austria. Gunskirchen was liberated by the Americans in May 1945.

After the war Alex returned to Czechoslovakia to look for family but no one else came back. He married and lived there until 1948. Then he went to Israel, finally emigrating to Australia in 1957.

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Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 31.