Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

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Clara Dan - July 1, 1982

An interview with Clara Dan, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Kay Roth. Clara Dan was born in Tîrgu-Mures, Romania (later Hungary) in 1921. Clara was the youngest of three siblings. In the spring of 1944, Clara, her sister and her parents were rounded up and placed in a makeshift ghetto in Koloszvar, Hungary. After several weeks there, they were shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Clara and her sister survived the selection on the ramp and were reunited in the camp. After some time in Auschwitz, Clara and her sister were sent to work in a bullet factory in Hundsfeld. When the Russians came too close to the area, the sisters were marched to Gross Rosen and then sent to Bergen-Belsen where the British Army liberated them. After the war, Clara and her sister were placed in a DP camp in Celle, Germany where they were reunited with their brother.

1. Introduction
2. Family
3. Education
4. Religious Life
5. Hungarians
6. Outbreak of War
7. Mixed Marriages
8. Relations with non-Jews
9. Uncles
10. Round-Ups
11. Transport to Auschwitz
12. Female Collaborator in Auschwitz
13. Post-War Anti-Semitism
14. Resistance
15. Obtaining Food
16. Conditions in Auschwitz
17. Evacuation to Hundsfeld
18. Transport to Hundsfeld
19. Hundsfeld
20. Gross Rosen
21. Bergen-Belsen
22. Liberation
23. Celle
24. Return to Hungary
25. Return to Germany
26. Immigration to America
27. Finding Brother
28. Family
29. American Jews
30. Thoughts on Survival
31. Thoughts on Survival II
32. Thoughts on Survival III
33. Detroit
34. Thoughts on Israel
35. Conditions in Auschwitz II