Helen

Birthdate: 2 Feb 1926

Place: Salgotaryan, Hungary

In May 1944 Helen Erdos was forced to move into a ghetto where she stayed for some 20 weeks before being crammed into a cattle truck and sent by train to Auschwitz. She remained there until liberation in May 1945. After the war she emigrated to New Zealand, arriving here on 27^th May 1948.

Antisemitism

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