Overview
- Interview Summary
- Ivo Kraus, born in 1921 in Osijek, Yugoslavia (now in Croatia), describes studying engineering in Belgrade, Serbia, where he lived with his two older brothers (Fritz and Egon); the bombing in Belgrade in April 1941; doing forced labor under the Nazis; escaping and being arrested by the Ustaša in Croatia; going to Split (Spalato), Croatia and the Italian occupation; being interned with his brothers in Split then sent to Piedmont, Italy; and escaping with his brothers in 1943 and going to Switzerland.
- Interviewee
- Ivo Kraus
- Interviewer
- Joe J. Heydecker
- Date
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interview:
approximately 1980
- Geography
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Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mara Kraus
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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1 CD-ROM.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. Any third party use must be approved by the donor, Mara Kraus.
- Copyright Holder
- Mara Kraus
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Bombing, Aerial--Serbia--Belgrade. Brothers. Concentration camp escapes. Concentration camp inmates. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Croatia--Osijek. Jews--Persecutions--Yugoslavia. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Croatia. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Italy. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Belgrade (Serbia) Brazil--Emigration and immigration. Osijek (Croatia) Piedmont (Italy) Sao Paulo (Brazil) Split (Croatia) Yugoslavia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Personal Name
- Kraus, Ivo, 1921-2000.
- Corporate Name
- Ustasha, Croatian revolutionary organization
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Mara Kraus donated the interview with Ivo Kraus to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 27, 2016. Joe J. Heydecker conducted the interview on behalf of the Kraus family in the early 1980s in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:35:16
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