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Oral history interview with Olga Horak

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.70.21 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0021

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    Oral history interview with Olga Horak

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Olga Horak, born August 11, 1926 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), discusses her family background; experiencing little change in her situation until March 1942; fleeing with her family to Hungary; living in hiding in Budapest, Hungary for a year and a half; the lack of help from others; returning home to Bratislava as a result of a tip-off by a friend about door to door searches by Germans; being hidden by a friend of her mother; receiving papers to go to the United States; being taken to the town of Marianka, Slovakia and then to Sered camp for four or five days; being sent to Auschwitz; the selection; marching 250km from November until January to Gross-Rosen; seeing the German army retreat; going to Bergen-Belsen; being liberated by British troops on April 15; getting sick and being transferred from the camp to a German hospital; being refused care due to their antisemitic attitudes; being transferred back to the sick bay at Bergen-Belsen where she stayed until August; being taken to the hospital in Pilsen (Plzen, Czech Republic); going back to Bratislava; fleeing the impending Russian occupation in 1947; going to Zagreb, Croatia and then to Zurich, Switzerland; and arriving in Australia in 1949.
    Interviewee
    Olga Horak
    Date
    interview:  1990 March 12
    Credit Line
    Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Permission must be obtained from the University of Sydney, Archive of Australian Judaica for any type of use other than research.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Horak, Olga.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Olga Horak on March 12, 1990 for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:03:05
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