Holocaust Survivors
Katherine
Born in 1924 in Sáránd, Hungary, Katherine (Kitty) was in the Sáránd ghetto and the Nagyvárad ghettos in 1944. As was the fate of most Hungarian Jews, Katherine was taken to Auschwitz. After four months, she was moved to the Allendorf work camp until her liberation. Katherine married a U.S. service man and emigrated to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1947. She raised three children and worked for US Bank where she rose to be Vice President. “The U.S. not only liberated me from the camps but gave me and other survivors the opportunity for a new life. We worked hard not to be a burden in this country, and we left Europe with nothing.”
