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Kitty Hart

Autor de Return to Auschwitz

7 Obras 110 Miembros 3 Reseñas

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Incluye los nombres: Kitty Hart-Moxon, Kitty Hart Moxon

Obras de Kitty Hart

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Hart-Moxon, Kitty
Fecha de nacimiento
1926
Género
female
Nacionalidad
Poland (birth)
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
Bielsko, Poland
Lugares de residencia
Lublin, Poland
Birmingham, England, UK
Educación
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, England, UK
Ocupaciones
memoirist
Holocaust survivor
nurse
Premios y honores
OBE 2003
Biografía breve
Kitty Hart, née Felix, was born to a prosperous, middle-class Jewish family in the southern Polish town of Bielsko. In August 1939, to escape proximity to Nazi Germany, the family moved to Lublin. When Germany invaded Poland at the start of World War II the following month, they were confined to the Lublin Ghetto. During the winter of 1940-41, they attempted to escape to Russia but were refused at the border and returned to Lublin. They obtained false identity papers to pose as Polish Catholics and split up to increase their chance of survival. Her father and brother were killed. Kitty went with her mother to volunteer for work in Germany, but they were betrayed in 1943 and sent to the death camp at Auschwitz. In 1944, the two were taken along with several hundred prisoners to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp and then on a death march across the Sudeten mountains. They were eventually put on a train and shipped across Europe to Porta Westfalica in Germany to work in an underground factory. Then they were sent to Bergen-Belsen and later to a camp near Salzwedel. They survived to be liberated by the American army in 1945. Kitty and her mother worked as translators for the British Army and then emigrated to the UK. In 1949, she married Rudi Hart, an upholsterer with whom she had two sons. Her first book, the memoir I Am Alive, was published in 1961, and led to her being featured in a documentary, Kitty: Return to Auschwitz. The documentary in turn inspired her second volume of autobiography, Return to Auschwitz (1981). She later worked with the BBC to make another documentary, Death March: A Survivor's Story (2003). She trained as a nurse and worked at a nursing home and a private radiology firm.

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A woman's remarkable story of survival during Germany's occupation of Poland, one of the darkest times during WW2. Kitty Felix and her family survive the Lublin ghettos and try to cross into the Soviet Union, only to have to turn back and plan another way out of the ghetto. Bravely posing as laborers inside the Reich, Kitty and her mother are identified as Jews and subsequently imprisoned in Germany, where they receive a death sentence. After being forced in front of a long line of machine guns and made to face a brick wall, she and her mother escape death by a laughing firing squad, and are transferred to Auschwitz. Kitty and her mother survive eighteen horrifying months inside one of the most feared concentration camps and a death march across an icy, freezing Germany, before being liberated by American troops.

This is a story of a brave struggle to survive. It's heartbreaking to hear such horrendous crimes done to innocent lives. Kitty struggled to survive whatever way she had to, often times barely escaping extermination herself. Kitty pushed herself to live another day through hunger, mental torture, brutal whippings, illness, and some of the most unspeakable acts of brutality so she could live to tell the story of those that died and those that survived a genocide that DID happen. Kitty Hart once wore the number 39934 to prove it. This is her tale of terror inside Auschwitz and her return to Auschwitz as a free woman with her grown son in 1978. It's an amazing story and it moved me to tears. Everyone should read this book at least once.
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MaryEvelynLS | 2 reseñas más. | Jun 1, 2014 |
* Inherited from Mum's shelves.
 
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velvetink | 2 reseñas más. | Mar 31, 2013 |
1903 Return to Auschwitz: The remarkable story of a girl who survived the Holocaust, by Kitty Hart (read 17 Jan 1985) The author was at Auschwitz and survived. It is a horrible story, and reading it is no fun. The author is not a wholly admirable character, but one cannot blame her--no wholly saint-like person could have survived as she did.
 
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Schmerguls | 2 reseñas más. | Sep 5, 2008 |

Estadísticas

Obras
7
Miembros
110
Popularidad
#176,729
Valoración
½ 4.3
Reseñas
3
ISBNs
12
Idiomas
3

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