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Oral history interview with Shoshana Kalfus

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.308 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0308

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    Oral history interview with Shoshana Kalfus

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Shoshana Kalfus, born in 1925 in Presov, Slovakia, describes being the second of five children; her father’s furniture store; the traditional non-Zionist beliefs of her family; not experiencing antisemitism until 1941 when all Jews were forced to wear yellow stars and to turn their businesses over to Slovakians; the Jews who were not Slovakian, including her uncle and his family, being sent to Ukraine and killed; the expulsion of Jewish children from schools and the start of deportations in 1942; most children going to Auschwitz and being killed; how she was sick and was allowed to stay in Presov for a month until the Nazis took her to the Deblin-Irena ghetto, near Lublin, Poland; being paid to do agricultural work clearing air fields and being well-treated by the Germans; her father’s death in the ghetto and the disappearance of her mother and brothers; the daily routine in the camp and the available medical treatment; romance in the camp; being taken to Czestochowa, to an ammunition factory; being liberated by the Russians; returning to Czechoslovakia with the help of the Joint Distribution Committee; living for a year with a cousin; joining an Aliya group and moving to Palestine; and joining an uncle in Tel Aviv, Israel; and getting married and having two children.
    Interviewee
    Shoshana Kalfus
    Date
    interview:  1996 November 14
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kalfus, Shoshana, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shoshana Kalfus in Israel on November 14, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:16:06
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