to Katalin Catherine Rubner-Brezlauer
Born into a Jewish family in Budapest. In 1944, when she was eleven, she and her entire family were deported to Bergen-Belsen. Five days without food, crammed into the wagon so that she couldn’t fall out. Her sister, two years older than her, died in the Bergen-Belzen concentration camp. In mid-August, it was a miracle: 316 people were allowed to board a train with an unknown destination. After three days’ travel without food, the train entered Switzerland. She was one of the lucky ones to reach Geneva on a Red Cross train.
“Even today, I’m very grateful to the Swiss people!”
Budapest 1932 – 3.30.2020