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Oral history interview with Frank Kun

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.121 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0121

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    Oral history interview with Frank Kun

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Frank Kun, born on June 13, 1937 in Kunmadaras, Hungary, discusses being an only child; his father Lazlo Kun (born 1905), who was a lawyer; his mother Clara Fischer, who was the eldest daughter of a bank manager; growing up in Kunmadaras in his grandfather’s home, in a family more spiritual than religious; the Jewish community in Kunmadaras and in Hungary; his father serving as a Sergeant in the Hungarian Army before being transferred to a work unit in the Russian front due to his Jewishness; his father’s return home due to illness and his death soon after; the slow arrival of antisemitic laws to Hungary and feeling persecuted; the relocation of the Jewish people of Kunmadaras to the Karcag Ghetto; staying in Karcag for three to four weeks before being sent to Szolnok; seeing increased violence in Szolnok; spending three days in Szolnok; the group being split into two trains, one full of family members of those who had died for Hungary and the rest in the other; being in the first train with his family and being sent to Laa, Austria; spending a year working on a farm with Russian POWs; the other train which was sent directly to Auschwitz; being forced with their group in early 1945 to walk to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt, before the Russians liberated it in May 1945; waiting for a week or two after liberation for a train to Hungary; Hungary and Kunmadaras after the war; moving to Australia after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956; his belief that his experience in the Holocaust has made him a more tolerant person; antisemitism in Australia; and his belief that the world in general is a better place for Jews.
    Interviewee
    Frank Kun
    Interviewer
    Moshe Morris
    Date
    interview:  1996 November 10

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kun, Frank, 1937-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre conducted the interview on November10, 1996, in Melbourne, Australia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview as an accretion to its July 1996 collection purchase.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:29:44
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