The Kallos Family Book 2022

PART 1: THE KALLOS FAMILY • 39
Etu Slyomovics in
postwar Prague.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY
HELEN KAMIL.
Hani Slyomovics, September 1953, Israel.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY HELEN KAMIL.
Baylu Klein (left) and her sister Mindu in
postwar Prague. PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN.
The extended Kallos family
This is not a complete list of the Kallos
family, but it does contain the names of those
members of the family who were on the ghetto
list (see page 22).
§ Fanny Kallos the matriarch of the Kallos
family was gassed on arrival in Birkenau, 27
May 1944.
§ Elek Kallos, Zoltan’s younger brother,
survived Birkenau, as did his wife Helen
and their son Gaby; their daughter Judit
perished. They emigrated to the USA where
Gaby, who trained as a dentist in Prague
before the war, became very successful.
§ Zoltan’s sister Hermine and her daughter
Olga survived Birkenau and Bergen Belsen.
Hermine’s husband Benjamin Herskovitz
and their daughter Marta perished. Postwar,
Hermine and Olga moved to the USA where
Olga married a dentist, with whom she had
three sons. Hermine always lived with Olga
and her family.
§ Zoltan’s sister Berta Kallos, her husband
David Abraham and their son Jiří all
perished. Their daughter Erzsi survived.
§ Zoltan’s sister Blanka Stephanski survived
in Hungary. Her son Irvin (nicknamed Petu)
died on a death march; her husband, Leo
Stephanski, died as a slave labourer in the
Hungarian Labor Service.
§ Zoltan’s youngest brother Sandor and his
wife Irenka managed to hide in Slovakia on
false Christian papers for the entire war;
they remained in Slovakia postwar until
they died; their two daughters still live there
today.
All the Kallos family information and Biri’s
memories were obtained by the author by
means of Skype interviews conducted in