Napló közel 50 év utan Diary nearly 50 years later
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Katarina B. Feuer
Biographical History
Katarina Bloch Feuer is a survivor of several concentration camps and of a death march from Guben, Germany, to Bergen-Belsen.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Katarina B. Feuer
Scope and Content
Contains a memoir in Hungarian, with an English translation, in two parts. Part I is entitled "Napló közel 50 év utan" ("Diary nearly 50 years later") and Part II is entitled "Megmenekülés" ("Narrow escape"). Describes the author's experiences as a teenager in an unnamed Hungarian town following the German invasion in 1944; her deportation to "Lager C" of Auschwitz concentration camp; her memories of selections by Josef Mengele and brutal actions by Irma Grese; her unsuccessful efforts to find her sisters in "Lager B;" her transfer to an ammunition factory in Guben, Germany (now Poland); a death march from Guben to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; her contraction of typhoid fever resulting in a temporary loss of hearing; the liberation of Bergen-Belsen on April 15,1945; her transfer to Sweden where she lived for several years; her marriage to a fellow concentration camp survivor; and their emigration to Israel in the early 1950s.
People
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-
- Feuer, Katarina Bloch.
- Grese, Irma, 1923-1945.
- Block family.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Hungary--History--1918-1945.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Jewish ghettos--Hungary.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Death marches--Germany.
- Deportation.
- Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
- Animal attacks.
- Guben (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Sweden--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Gas chambers.
- Jews, Hungarian.
- Kapos.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.