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Birthday: 1937
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Families: Farkas
Family
Father: Yehuda Wolf Farkas | Mother: Frida Aharon Farkas
Siblings: Moshe Farkas, Sarah (Sandra) Farkas Schwartz, Zipora Farkas Hirsch, Chaya Farkas Goldstein, Miriam Farkas Kalkstein, Shimshon Farkas
Biography
Kalman Farkas, born in Tyachiv. He lived in this small village, with his family and some 1500 Jews. . At the origin, the village was under the Austro-Hungarian government, …in 1920, it passed to the new Czechoslovakian state. After some years, it was shifted back to Hungary, untill World War 2. As many Jewish villages in the area, it was victim of the Nazi persecution, and their “Final solution”. Jews were gathered in central ghetto in the village. Some were sent to Nazi labor camps, while others were deported to Auschwitz and other extermination camps, between the years 1942-1944. That was also the destiny of the Farkash family, … Some members died in that holocaust, some escaped, some survived, in spite their capture and detention in those camps, … . Kalman was very young, (aged 7 years) , and could not resist the atrocities, and sufferings. He died in that Holaucost, with 6 million European Jews.
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