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Oral history interview with Isabelle Kun

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.851 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0851

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    Oral history interview with Isabelle Kun

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Kun's childhood in Czechoslovakia and in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Ms. Kun describes her first marriage in 1935, the couple's immigration to Romania and return to Czechoslovakia. She describes her deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944, her separation from her husband, whom she never saw again, and the terrible conditions at Auschwitz. Ms. Kun discusses her transfer to Birnbaumel, the forced labor she performed there, and the death march she endured in January 1945. She describes her liberation by Russian troops, her return to Prague, where she learned of the death of her mother, husband and many other family members, meeting her second husband in Prague, and their immigration to the United States in 1946.
    Interviewee
    Isabelle Kun
    Interviewer
    Fred Eisner
    Date
    interview:  1991 August 20
    interview:  1991 December 10
    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
    4 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Isabelle Kun on August 20, 1991 and December 10, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 2003.
    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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