Peter Dehn – Page 9

“Two Years in Nazi concentration camps”

Leon Gottlieb reported on his time in the Sachsenhausen, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps for the Australian radio station ABC.

Part 1: 57 days on the Dunera to Australia – a horror trip into the unknown for 2,500 interned Jews and Nazi opponents.

Heinz Dehn’s wife and their two small children, his mother and other close relatives were murdered by the Nazis.

Ida Dehn, née Flieder, from Hanover, lost all her relatives – her parents, three brothers and a half-brother and his family in the Holocaust.

Ida had to flee her hometown of Hanover at the age of 16 in order to survive.

The Kitchener Camp was a transit camp for Jewish refugees in Richborough, Kent in 1939/40.

The Nussbaum family, friends of Ida’s parents, took Ida with them to Australia.

In 1940, the British deported 11,000 Germans and Austrians overseas. Part 1: Tribunals, “5th Column” and arrests.

In 1940, the British deported 11,000 Germans and Austrians overseas. Part 2: 5 ships to Canada and Australia.

In 1940, the British deported 11,000 Germans and Austrians overseas. Part 3: A “deplorable mistake”?