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FOCKS FRIDA


Interviewer:

Full Name/s
Ori and klil

E-mail: uks2006@walla.com

Survivor:

Code: RelatioNet FO FR 25 HO CH
Family Name:Focks First Name: Frida
Father Name: Izekuvich Mother Name: Kastenbaum Birth Date: 1/01/1925
Town In Holocaust: Khust Country In Holocaust: Ukraine
Profession (Main) In Holocaust: S
eamstress
Status (Today): Alive


Address Today: Kfar Saba - Israel




Life story

First name: Frida
Given name: Izikovich
After marriage: Fuchs
Birth year and place: 1925, Khust – Kraptim (Now in Ukraine. Before WW2 in Czechoslovakia).
Family:
Family members: Father Name – Moshe
Mother Name – Bluma
7 brothers & sisters – Miriam(1920), Bertha(1921),
Rosa(1923), Frida(1925), Regina(1927), Helena(1929),
Josef Haim(1931).
Religion: Jewish.

Frida’s father worked as a farmer and he was the only provider in the family because Frida mother took care of the children at home.
Their house was a private house with 2 bedrooms and a kitchen.
Frida family was known as an established family.


After finishing 4 years in elementary school, Frida learned in pulgary(Junior-high and High school). All her friends and people she knew were non-Jewish.

When the Hungarian invasion started (1939) Frida learned sewing. She and her family were forced to wear yellow patches as all the Jewish people in that time.

Frida and her family didn’t run away from the Germans and she found her self and her family evicted to Auschwitz (1943). On the train to Auschwitz the Germans took Frida’s father, mother and her brother.
In Auschwitz the Germans divided the Jews into 2 different lines, one to a work camp and the other to the incinerator. At first Frida was placed in the incinerator line but she managed to evade from the incinerator line to the work camp line.
When she and her little sister were on the train entrance they were divided again but this time the Germans soldier mixed up between Frida’s sister to an other woman and Helena was sent to the incinerator line.

Frida was in different work camps (Livenshtat and Nayshtat) in one of them she was with her sister – Bertha.
Apparently in the transfer from one work camp to another Bertha and Frida met up with their cousin. Their cousin wanted so badly to transfer with Frida and her sister that she grabbed Bertha and she didn’t let her go. Because of that the Germans solider took Bertha and let the cousin transferred to another work camp. The train that the cousin was transfer on was boomed from airplanes and she died there.

From that time until the war end (3.5.1945) Frida was in a work camp.
Then the Americans took Frida and the Jews to a settlement – Hafkrok.
Since then Frida was free and she could moved wherever she liked, Frida decided to come back home, to Khust. There she found her 2 sisters Rosa and Regina. They found their house with a new owner – their neighbor. He let Frida and her sister’s room at the house to live in.

After a period of time of rest Frida was back at work.

When Khust was appended to Russia she met her husband they came to Israel in 1969 to Kfer-saba.
Frida have 2 children – Moshe and Rebecca.
When she came to Israel she started to work in the restaurant of “Egged”

Her sisters after the war-
Miriam - became ill in typhus and to get medical treatment she moved to Sweden, then she came back to Liberace, she got married and then she came to Israel. She passed away in Israel.
Rosa – came to Israel but she could not suffer the Israeli heat because her wounded back (from the war), so she moved to U.S.A.
Regina – on her way to Canada she met a Jewish man and in Canada they got married.







Khust
(Ukrainian and Rusyn: Xуст, Romanian: Hust, Hungarian: Huszt, Czech, Yiddish: חוסט and Slovak: Chust) is a city located on the Khustets River in the Zakarpattia oblast (province) in western Ukraina.

Origin of name – The name possibly related to the name of the stream Husztica. It is also conceivable that the name of the city comes from a Romanian traditional food ingredient - husti

History-
In 1910 Huszt had 10,292 citizens, 5,230 Rusyns/Ukrainians, 3,505 Hungarians and 1,535 Germans. Until the Treaty of Trianon it belonged to Hungary and was the seat of the Huszt District of Máramaros County, since then it belongs to Ukraine.

Yeshiva
In 1861 Rabbi Moshe (Moses) Shieck aka 'the Maharam Shik’ established the largest Yeshiva of Eastern Europe, in Khust. This Yeshiva (Torah academy) had over 800 students
Rabbi Nachman of Braslau had tried to establish a competing Hassidic Yeshiva in 1865 in the same city, but was expelled by Rabbi Shick. This caused him to move to Braslau and to become known as the “Breslaver Rebbe”. Rabbi Nachman never held it against Rabbi Shieck, and his students to this day commemorate Rabbi Shick and his Yeshiva. (Source: Bresslav Hassidic info site - Hebrew). However, it must be noted that Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Ukraine passed away in 1810, which was 50 years earlier! Thus there is great confusion over this subject and section should be corrected after clarification with Breslov chassidim.