Generations of Jewish families in Europe didn’t survive World War II — but one boy did and, eventually, he told the world what happened.
Mitka Kalinski became known for his tales of survival and hardship as a 5-year-old working on a farm and for emigrating to the United States to begin a new life. A ceremony of life will be conducted Sunday at the Atlantis Hotel Casino Paradise Ball Room at 1 p.m. for Kalinski, who died in September. The community is invited.
Kalinski, who had lived in Sparks since 1959, had moved around as a child during World War II, beginning with the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald and eventually to southern Bavaria’s Dachau. Kalinski stayed at a farm near Rotenberg an der Fulda in 1942 that was owned by Gustav Dörr, a German officer, and his sister Anna…