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Napló közel 50 év utan

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.A.0150 | RG Number: RG-02.209

Overview

Description: 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.
Subtitle: Diary nearly 50 years later
Collection Creator: Katarina B. Feuer
Biography: Katarina Bloch Feuer is a survivor of several concentration camps and of a death march from Guben, Germany, to Bergen-Belsen.

Physical Details

Language: Hungarian English
Genre/Form: Personal narratives.
Extent: 1 folder

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Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Animal attacks. Death marches--Germany. Deportation. Gas chambers. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography. Holocaust survivors--Israel. Jews--Persecutions--Hungary. Jews, Hungarian. Jewish ghettos--Hungary. Kapos. Concentration camp inmates--Selection process. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Geographic Name: Guben (Germany) Hungary--History--1918-1945. Israel--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Sweden--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Personal Name: Feuer, Katarina Bloch. Block family. Mengele, Josef, 1911- Grese, Irma, 1923-1945.
Corporate Name: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Katarina B. Feuer

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