Item 08: Holocaust survivors from Poland ; Jacob Enoch interviewed by Caroline Haski, 1989

MLOH 500/285-286

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20/03/1989

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

1087268

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/285-286

2 sound cassettes (2 hrs.)

Jakob Enoch born in Cracow, Poland, 1926. During war: in Cracow Ghetto from 1941 to March 1943, in labour force that built Plaszow concentration camp, in November taken to labour camp in Ostrowiec and put to work collecting ore, in 1944 evacuated to Birkenau and selected for work at Buna labour camp, camp bombed by Russians and forced on Death March for three days and then on train through Czechoslovakia to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, liberated by Americans in April 1945. After war: sent to Switzerland for recovery, learnt metalwork with ORT (a non-governmental education and training organization), arrived in Australia in 1948.

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Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 146.