Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Lanka Ilkow - October 12, 1991

Extended Family (Continued)

...how proud she--"Kyle's mother Sherry spoke about research she did on Kyle's, on Kyle's honor, creating an album and presenting it--the gift to the synagogue. It's about the town, their synagogue and the history of the Jews from this town. Kyle's cousin Martin and Lanka Ilkow of Southfield, Michigan were present as Czech survivors."

As Czech...

You know. And she put that in uh, this is the second time, the second bar mitzvah I went, she did this, you know.

Now of all these fifty, fifty-five people with aunts and uncles and cousins, how many do you think survived?

First cousins, we were survived three sisters and a brother. Four, four survived. In ??? six. So one died here in America, I was very close to him. Because my brother was killed from the Hungarian police. He was killed just before they took us away from home. And...


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