Tiffani Calvisky
Survivor Malka Klin Boran
Interviewer: Shulamit Bostacky
Date: 6 Jan 1997
City: Pittsburg PA
Malka Klin Boran was born in Warsaw Poland, on January 30, 1927. She was the oldest of her and her brother. Right after she was born her and her family moved to Transtavadla Germany. In her interview she talked about living a relatively normal life up until she was 15 years old. Malka said in the interview, “My fifteenth birthday was the last birthday I had ever spent with my family.” Malka’s family gave her a chain and heart locket as a present that she still has part of it to this day. She said in the interview that she remember exactly what happened on that cold morning that the Germans took over her home and forced them onto the streets. Once outside, the Germans walked Malka and her family to a large market where she and her father and brother were separated from her mother. She never saw her mother again. In 1943, Malka’s father and brother were shot in the back while working on the railroad and she was sent to work at a labor/concentration camp in a steal factory. There she work long hours and lived in all female barracks that were lice and bug infested. They had no blankets or clothing beside what they had on their backs the entire time she was there. Malka met a lady while working that would smuggle little things into the camp and give them to people. She said, “I traded the chain off the locket my parents gave to me for a whole slice of bread and I shared it with my friends.” To this day Kalka says the only thing that kept her alive was God because she didn’t do anything to survive. She wants more than anything for our future generations to see that they is always hope and the possibility for change.
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