Tag #130405 - Interview #78005 (Rudi Katz)

Until I was deported with my family to the Tibulovca [7] concentration camp in Transnistria [8] in 1941, I wasn't directly confronted with anti- Semitism, but I had heard of it. Newspapers talked about the events in Germany, and there was news of the Iron Guard movement at the universities, where Jews were beaten and thrown out. I made friends with a boy who had come from Austria right after the Anschluss [9], in 1938; he probably had relatives here. There was some tension in our house; I think my parents became aware of the fact that the danger could come our way.