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Eva B.: Hungarian Jew, immigrated to the USA after concentration camp internment

Eva B., 2006 in den USA

Eva B., 2006 in the USA

Eva B. (links) mit ihrer Familie, 1941

Eva B. (left) with her family in 1941

Hungarian Jew, Eva B., was transported to Auschwitz as a child and transported to a subcamp of Flossenbürg. After 1945, she immigrated to the USA and worked in health care.

  • Born in 1931 in Khust on the Hungarian-Czechoslovakian-Ukranian border
  • Deported to Auschwitz in March 1944 at the age of 13 where the entire family was murdered
  • Narrowly survives the prisoner selections
  • Transported to a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in the autumn of 1944; forced labor there in a munitions factory
  • 1945: Death march to Theresienstadt and liberated by the Red Army
  • First returns to Hungary and later immigrates to the USA in 1947
  • Employment as a health care teacher

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