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Oral history interview with Yochanan Kalfus

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.251 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0251

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    Oral history interview with Yochanan Kalfus

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Yochanan Kalfus, born in Vichyne, Ukraine in 1923, discusses his home life; the German occupation; smuggling food into ghettos in Bochnia, Poland and Kraków, Poland; being recruited to a work camp near Płaszów; working for a firm building rails leading to Auschwitz; work, food, and accommodations in Plaszów; life in the forest as a partisan fighter; Shimon Regel and Gustav Davidson; passing as a non-Jew; the advance of the Russians; liberation; and his immigration to Israel in 1948.
    Interviewee
    Yochanan Kalfus
    Date
    interview:  1995 April 19
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    10 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kalfus, Yochanan, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yochanan Kalfus in Israel on April 19, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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