HHREC MemoryKeeper Story Hour: Grace Kalfus

HHREC GenerationsForward Speaker Grace Kalfus will present the story of her mother Frieda Kalfus (née Dulberg), who was born in Jablonow, Poland in 1923. Frieda’s life changed in 1939 when Hitler signed a non-aggression pact giving Frieda’s town and the eastern part of Poland to Russia. Her life was even more dramatically altered in 1941 when the Nazis invaded this area and the Russians ran East. In the years that followed, she was hidden by a family of Upstanders in a displaced person’s camp before they finally emigrated to America.

Grace presents her mother’s story to honor her memory and to share Frieda’s kindness, courage, and strength which have guided her own family and which serve as a lesson to us all. She has written, and privately published for her family, a children’s picture book to memorialize the love and dedication her mother bestowed on both her own children and her grandchildren.

Q&A to follow.