Item 02: Holocaust survivors from Lithuania ; Naftal Sieff interviewed by Herta Imhof, 1990

MLOH 500/260-261

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1 May 1990

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

997434

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/260-261

2 sound cassettes (2 hrs.)

Naftal Sieff was born in Schwekschna (Lithuania) in 1924. In 1941 he was sent to Meislauken farming village in Prussia for forced labour. In 1943 he was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he worked on an extension of the railway to Crematoria.

After an uprising in Warsaw in September 1943, Naftal was transported there to work on flattening the ghetto where it had taken place. As the Russian Army approached in 1944 he was evacuated to Dachau, and then put to work building underground hangars at Muhldorf (Germany).

After the war Naftal stayed in a Displaced Persons camps in Germany and was a witness in the war trials. He was sponsored to come to Australia and arrived in 1950.

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Log of interview available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 133.