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About the Author
Includes the name: Leitner Isabella
Works by Isabella Leitner
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- Birthdate
- 1924-05-28
- Date of death
- 2009-04-19
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Hungary (birth)
- Birthplace
- Kisvarda, Hungary
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Auschwitz, Poland
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Occupations
- memoirist
children's book author
Holocaust survivor
educator - Short biography
- Isabella Leitner, née Katz, was born to a Jewish family in the small town of Kisvárda, Hungary, one of six siblings.
In 1939, at the start of World War II, her father Menyhért Mendel Katz emigrated to the USA, where he believed he could obtain visas that would allow his family to escape the Nazis.
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But within a short time, it became impossible for Jews to leave Hungary. In March 1944, Germany invaded the country, and Hungarian policemen forced the Leitner family into a Jewish ghetto. In May of that year, 20-year-old Isabella and her fa