“As a Memento for Your Sons and Future Generations so as to Honor Your Deeds” – Materials for the Biography of Smuggler Benzion Kalb
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 18 (2022), pages: 520-563
Publication date: 2023-03-11
Abstract
The sources presented in this article are closely connected with the article entitled “Survival Networks – Smugglers from Podhale and Spiš During the Holocaust,” published in this issue of our journal and the fate of its protagonist, Benzion Kalb during 1943–1945. During the war, Kalb operated in the smuggling networks on the Polish-Slovak border. Between 1943 and 1944, he used his contacts and routes to smuggle hundreds of people across the border between occupied Poland and Slovakia as well as across the Slovakian-Hungarian border.
Keywords
Holocaust, smuggling networks, escape abroad, hiding in a bunker, Kezmarok, confirmation of merit
References
Univeristy of Southern California Shoah Foundation, Visual History Archive, 9261, Wy- wiad z Clarą Colb, Nowy Jork, 27 XI 1995 r.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Ben Zion Kalb Papers, 2014.406.2.
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