Watch the testimony below.
Ferdinand Kalina was born in 1916. He grew up in the 2nd district, where his family ran an antique shop. As a child, Kalina helped out in the shop. In 1938 he fled to Bratislava. Later he managed to escape from a youth-forced-labour camp in Svätý Jur (Slovakia). During the last months of the war he was hidden by a Slovakian man. Most of Kalina’s family was killed in the Holocaust by the National Socialists. In 1968 he returned to Vienna for a few years but soon emigrated to Australia. This interview was conducted by the USC Shoah Foundation in Melbourne, Australia in 1998.