Abstract
Luisa Owen-Lang was born in 1935 in a small village in Yugoslavia and immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen in 1951. In this interview, she discusses her childhood during the expulsion and subsequent ethnic cleansing of ethnic Germans. She also recounts her experiences as she was separated from her family and forced to endure harsh conditions in multiple concentration camps at the age of nine and her life after she moved to the United States. Owen-Lang also wrote a book about her experiences called Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered, published by Texas A&M University Press.
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Interviewee
Owen-Lang, Luisa (interviewee)
Interviewer
Waldvogel, Madison (interviewer)
Project
Cleveland German-American Oral History Project
Date
4-8-2021
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
87 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Luisa Owen-Lang interview, 08 April 2021" (2021). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 195017.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1247
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