Simon Kalmas (Shimon Yosef Kalmus) Interview

Bolkosky, Sidney M.; Wraight, Jamie L.; Kalmas, Simon; Kirsch, Arthur

Simon Kalmas (Shimon Yosef Kalmus) Interview

dc.contributor.author	Bolkosky, Sidney M.
dc.contributor.author	Wraight, Jamie L.
dc.contributor.author	Kalmas, Simon
dc.contributor.author	Kirsch, Arthur
dc.contributor.other	Kalmus, Shimon Yosef
dc.contributor.other	Kalmus, Shimon Yosef
dc.contributor.other	Kalmus, Shimon Yosef
dc.date.accessioned	2007-05-21T14:55:47Z
dc.date.available	2007-05-21T14:55:47Z
dc.date.issued	1982-05-25
dc.identifier.citation	http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/kalmas/ <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/51471>	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/51471
dc.description	An interview with Simon J. Kalmas (Shimon Yosef Kalmus), a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Arthur Kirsch. Simon Kalmas was born in Drobin, Poland in 1915. As a boy he learned the trade of tinsmithing. After the German invasion of Poland, Simon and the men of his town were taken and held in another city for five days before being returned home and told to move into the Drobin ghetto; later moving to the Neustadt Oberschlesien ghetto. Simon had the chance to escape to Russia but chose to stay with his family in Poland. The family remained together until 1942 when they were deported to Auschwitz. Simon was chosen for work in the coal mines of IG Farben Industry before being selected for his tinsmithing skills to repair the roofs of bombarded barracks from 1944 until 1945. After that, Simon was forced to march to Gleiwitz in a snowstorm to catch a transport train to Buchenwald where he was liberated. Simon moved to Nashville, Tennessee in April 1949 but moved permanently to Detroit in January 1950 because of the racism he saw happening against African Americans in the South.	en
dc.description.abstract	An interview with Simon J. Kalmas (Shimon Yosef Kalmus), survivor of the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, by Arthur Kirsch.	en
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	The University of Michigan-Dearborn Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive	en
dc.subject	Jewish Holocaust	en
dc.subject	World War II	en
dc.subject	World War Two	en
dc.subject	World War 2	en
dc.subject	WWII	en
dc.subject	Jewish Ghetto	en
dc.subject	Forced Labor	en
dc.subject	Concentration Camp Inmates	en
dc.subject	Shoah	en
dc.subject	WW2	en
dc.subject	Nazi Holocaust of the Jews	en
dc.title	Simon Kalmas (Shimon Yosef Kalmus) Interview	en
dc.type	Interview	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel	Judaic Studies
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel	Social Sciences
dc.contributor.affiliationum	Social Sciences: History, Department of	en
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus	Dearborn	en
dc.identifier.oclc	76164974
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dc.owningcollname	Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive (UM-Dearborn)

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