us-005578-irn523126-irn34179
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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has or had holder: us-005578
type: RecordSet
scope and content: The collection consists of an identification card issued to Izo Dunst on February 16, 1949 that identifies his date and place of birth.
is or was included in: us-005578-irn523126
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has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1949-12-31
title: Israel Dunst identification card
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1949-01-01
biographical history: Israel (Lou) Dunst was born in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, (Yasinya, Ukraine) in the Carpathians, on May 11, 1926, to Mordekhai (Markus) Dunst (b. 1892) and Priva (Pepi, b. 1892). His father’s parents were Daniel and Rakhel Dunst, and his mother’s parents were Rut and Yisrael Zimlichman. Lou had an older brother, Irving (Yitzhak, b. 1928) and an older sister, Rusena (b. 1930). His father was a grocer and had a general merchandise store. The family observed orthodox Jewish traditions and Lou began taking religious classes at the age of four. The town population was about 35% Jewish and he was often attacked by anti-Semites. The family was fairly well off by local standards and his mother would send him to school with extra food to give to those who had nothing. On March 15, 1939, Nazi Germany occupied the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia and made it a German protectorate. In May, Hungary seized and annexed the southern region on the Czech-Hungarian border which included Jasina. The Hungarians enacted laws restricting Jews from certain activities and professions, but they did not organize killings or deportations. Lou’s father’s business was taken away. Newspapers were censored but the family occasionally heard BBC broadcasts. His father was sent to a labor camp and Lou was put in a forced labor battalion. On March 19, 1944, Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and installed a government that would take action to exterminate the Jewish population; they were actively joined by groups from the local Ukrainian population. Jews were brought in boxcars from other areas and taken out on trucks into the country side and gunned down. One morning, Lou and his family were told to gather in the village center with the other Jews. They were put in a large building and, after several days, were taken to a Jewish cemetery and told to dig their graves before they shot. Nothing happened; they were taken back to town. A few days later, Lou and his family were loaded into boxcars, taken to …
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record resource extent: folder 1
identifier: irn34179