AHC interview with Eric Thuna

April 12, 2010Digital imageEric (Erich) Thuna was born on Nov. 1, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, where he lived in the 4th District (Schoenburgerstrasse 25). Mr. Thuna attended elementary school in Waltergasse from 1932 to 1938. After ‘Anschluss’ Eric Thuna fled to Luxemburg where he stayed until October 1940. He went to Marseille, France, where he was interned (Bayonne, Kay Mousserole), then to Spain and Portugal, before he finally arrived in the United States in June of 1941. He was a car mechanic and then a plant manager until his retirement to Coconut Creek, Florida in 1989