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Oral history interview with Lenci Farkas

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.316 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0316

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    Oral history interview with Lenci Farkas

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lenci Farkas (née Zisovits), born in 1922, describes her experiences after April 1944, when she was taken with her family to a ghetto near her home town of Korolevo (then Hungary, now Ukraine); being transported to Auschwitz a month later; her experiences at Auschwitz; being witness to atrocities and enduring terrible conditions; the death march from Auschwitz, from which she escaped with two of her sisters; working for the Russians until the war ended; getting married and having her first child; fleeing from Communist rule to the United States in 1949; returning to her home town a few years before the interview; and the troubling emotions the visit inspired in her.
    Interviewee
    Lenci Farkas
    Date
    interview:  1990 November 06
    interview:  1990 December 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Farkas, Lenci, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lenci Farkas on November 6, 1990 and December 11, 1990. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2001.
    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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    2023-11-16 08:44:42
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