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Oral history interview with Andrej Kalarasho

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.315 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0315

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    Oral history interview with Andrej Kalarasho

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Andrej Kalarosho (né Bernard Gropert), born in 1922 in Botosani, Romania, discusses being the oldest of three children; moving to Iasi, Romania, where his father owned a garage; playing the piano, composing music, and directing plays in high school; how the Jews of his town were accused of signaling enemy planes, rounded up, and deported; the separation from his family and going by cattle car to Calarasi, Moldova; never seeing his family again; returning to Iasi after several months but being so ill that he had to walk on all fours for a year; later receiving a job as a teacher’s assistant; refusing to join the Communist Party; believing that the personal stories of the Jewish Romanian community have never been represented; living in Israel and working in television; and never telling his family or his work colleagues about his experiences during the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Andrej Kalarasho
    Date
    interview:  1996 December 06
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kalarasho, Andrej, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Andrej Kalarasho in Israel on December 6, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:16:09
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