A Holocaust OdysseyMemoirs of a Jew from Slovakia, born in the village of Dlhe in 1917 as Jozef Kornfeld. When the independent Slovak state was established in 1939, he lived in Presov. Describes the expulsion of Jews to Hungarian-annexed Kosice in 1939 and restrictions imposed on the Jews by the antisemitic government of Slovakia in that year. Kalina worked in his brother's lumber business in Presov and was considered important to the economy; he was exempted from the deportations of 1942 in which all but 600 Jews of Presov were deported to Auschwitz. In 1944 he fled to Zilina, provided with "Aryan" papers by his friend, Ludovit Argay, and hid. In November 1944 he was arrested and sent to a Messerschmitt labor camp in Augsburg; he was sent by the camp administration on a mission and passed to the liberated area. His wife Maria survived at a farm near Zilina, helped by a local peasant. |
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Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East Marc Gopin No preview available - 2002 |