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Eugen Grunfeld; Eugen Kraus

Cluj-Napoca 6 June 2008 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler 8 min · 1 part on 1 tape two sources agree
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  1. MDV 250 53:01–1:00:40 · 8 min · archive.org · a part of the tape
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53:01

Kraus discusses his childhood memories, specifically traveling with his father. Kraus and Grunfeld then talk about Jewish life of the region during World War II. Their familys were deported to Auschwitz. They state that the region was divided between deportation and forced labor.

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Kraus recalls eating at a different family's home each day in Lekhintsa, the market town, because his family was poor, and a sister who was a tailor there. He and Grunfeld discuss the war, in which both families' relatives were deported to Auschwitz, and the border near Cluj and Turda that divided Hungarian from Romanian territory. They also tell of the killing of 120 Jews of Sharmash in the last days of the war.

includes the account of the Sharmash massacre and the border dividing deportation from forced labor