Napló közel 50 év utan Diary nearly 50 years later

Identifier
irn504403
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0150
  • RG-02.209
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

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.

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