Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Ilya Martha Kessler - November 1, 1982

Orphanage

Um, after the war, when you uh, when you were liberated uh, and you, you went to your uncle's...

Yeah.

...after you got home um, and you stayed in... It was like an orphanage, you said?

Mm--hm, yeah, it's orphanage. They find kids who the, the parents they paid for the... for a boy and two sisters. And they, you know, how I say that some people ??? And they went there and they were rich, so they was very... So, they ??? to wash for them and everybody has a younger like a sister. And we washed, so everybody I don't know who get the ???

Yeah, yeah. How long did you stay there?

I came home, I was in the place where I was born there may be some. November or something and I was there until, until, uh ???

Okay.

In ??? they took us to ???

Yes, okay. Now the ??? was that in Koŝice?

Koŝice, mm--hm.


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