Kurt Rosenkranz: Vienna to Kazakhstan

narrated by

David Horovitch

Kurt was obsessed with football (soccer). When the family fled to Riga after 1938 and he became obsessed with Communism. Until a Red Army soldier knocked on their door, ordered the family to follow him, and sent them on a train to a gulag prison camp. “Communism,” Kurt said, “You’re dead to me.”

Read Kurt Rosenkranz’s Centropa biography and view his pictures here. (german only)

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