[Testimony of Olga Zoltan]
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (9 Pages)
Creator(s)
- Zoltan, Olga, 1894-1984
Scope and Content
Testimony in Hungarian (without translation) by Olga Zoltan, who was in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. She describes the German occupation of Hungary, hostilities against Jews and how she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, selected by Josef Mengele (SS officer and physician) and then sent on to Ravensbrück. Olga Zoltan was forced to work in a cable factory. When the camp was closed and the inmates where sent on a "death march", she managed to escape and get through to the American liberating front, which was close to the city of Coburg. Olga Zoltan died in Budapest, Hungary, in July 1984 shortly before her 90th birthday.
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Mode of access: WWW
Note(s)
Electronic access only
Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 10.03.2016
People
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Women
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany
- Jews--Hungary--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German
- Death march--Germany
- Forced labor--Germany--Ravensbrück (Concentration camp).
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Germany--Ravensbruck
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary
- Women concentration camp inmates--Germany--Ravensbrück (Concentration camp).
- Slave labor--Germany--Ravensbrück (Concentration camp).
Places
- Coburg (Germany)