AHC interview with Jean Malkischer.

Digital recordingJune 13, 2012Jean Malkischer, née Adler, a resident of Hopewell Junction, was born in Austria. Her family tried to flee to Switzerland after the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, but was turned away at the border. In August 1942, they were sent to Theresienstadt in what is now the Czech Republic, before being transported to Auschwitz in Poland in September 1944. In November of that year, Malkischer and her sister were transferred to the Dresden area in Germany to work in forced labor in a munitions factory. As Soviet army units advanced, Jean Malkischer and her sister were put onto open coal cars to go back to Theresienstadt but the train was abandoned. She was reunited with her mother and immigrated to the United States in 1951.Austrian Heritage Collectio