Citation
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/danb/ <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/51469>
Publisher
The University of Michigan-Dearborn Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
Subjects
Holocaust
World War Two
World War II
World War 2
WWII
WW2
Nazi Holocaust of the Jews
Jewish Holocaust
Forced Labor
Shoah
Szentkiralyszabadja
Galicia
Besztercze
Russian Army
Description
An interview with Bert Dan, a Holocaust
survivor, conducted by Kay Roth. Bert Dan
was born in Cluj, Romania in 1916. He
served as a soldier in the Romanian army at
the outbreak of World War II. After the
Hungarians occupied Romania, he was
arrested and imprisoned for a year; upon
his release Bert was drafted into various
labor camps and work details throughout
Eastern Europe. During a forced march
back to Hungary, he escaped with a group
of other prisoners and was found by the
Russian army. He was freed and eventually
returned to Cluj. Bert began to work with
Jewish committees helping to locate and
assist Hungarian and Romanian Jews
returning to their homes from Poland. He
eventually set up a committee office in
Prague, Czechoslovakia where he was
reunited with his fiancée. They married
after the end of the war and immigrated to
the United States in 1949.