Item 48: Holocaust survivors from Hungary ; Eleonora Samu interviewed by Irene Stanbrook, 1990

MLOH 500/208-209

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29/03/1990

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

1091425

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/208-209

2 sound cassettes (2 hrs.)

Eleonora Samu, nee Orova, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1919. Studied to be an Industrial Chemist but unable to get a job because of anti-Jewish laws after 1938. After Germans occupied Hungary, moved into Jewish designated house. In October 1944 taken to labour camp at Orszentmiklos, close to Budapest. Worked there three weeks digging trenches. Marched ten days to a small town in Germany and from there transported to Dachau concentration camp. In December, taken to Ravensbruck concentration camp for one week. Then to slave labour camp at Spandau and hospitalized there with infected leg. In early 1945 taken by truck to camp at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, near Berlin. Liberated by Russians in April. Walked from town to town trying to get home and in August stayed in a camp run by Russians. Eventually got on train and returned to Budapest in September. Reunited with parents who had survived war in a Swiss safe house. Married in 1948 and had two daughters. In 1956 escaped to Vienna and arrived in Australia in 1957.

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Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 107.