Abstract

Luisa Owen-Lang was born on September 22, 1935 in a small village in Yugoslavia, and emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen in 1951. In this interview, Luisa 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. Luisa Owen-Lang also wrote a book about her experiences called Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered.

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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

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License
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