Item 35: Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia ; Jack Weiser interviewed by Nora Huppert, 1990

MLOH 500/99-100

item

29/04/1990

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

997389

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/99-100

2 sound cassettes (2 hrs.)

Jack (Jacob) Weiser was born in Spisska Nova Ves (Czechoslovakia) in 1919. During the Hungarian occupation from 1938 Jack completed a jewelery apprenticeship in Lucenec and from 1940 he worked in Trencin. In 1944 his non-Jewish boss organised documents exempting him from deportation. When the Germans arrived, the rounding up of Jews intensified and in August he fled to Bratislava with false papers. Living as a non-Jew, he got a job and a place to stay until the end of the war with the help of a non-Jewish couple. After Russian liberation, Jack came out of hiding and started a business with another survivor. When the Communist regime began making more restrictions on freedom, he left Bratislava for Vienna and arrived in Australia in 1949.

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Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 44.