Now watch clips of testimony of Peter Engelmann, son of Jindřich Engelmann, and his wife.
Peter Engelman was born in May 1924 in Prague.
He survived the Terezín ghetto, where he was deported together with his parents, and met his married sister in the ghetto.
Another deportation transport took him to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, after which he passed through the Buchenwald and Taucha camps. During his transport to the next concentration camp, he jumped off the wagon and found refuge with German peasants. He made his way to Pilsen and to loyal friends in southern Bohemia and joined the resistance.
Immediately after the war he emigrated to Australia, where he married another survivor from Czechoslovakia.
The interview was filmed on 29 November 1995 in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
Why do you think so many Holocaust survivors decided to go as far away from their hometowns and Europe as possible after liberation?