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Rosa Deutsch – „… arrival at external camp Penig after a long drive“

9/4/1926 (Budapest, Hungary) – 2016 (Budapest, Hungary)

In November 1944, high school graduate Rosa Deutsch was ordered to report to a brick factory on the outskirts of Budapest. Along with thousands of other Jews, the SS forced them to march from there to the German border. In early 1945, they were taken via the Ravensbrück concentration camp to the Penig satellite camp. There, she was forced to assemble aircraft parts. The women suffer from the cold, hunger, and disease. Rosa Deutsch falls critically ill. When the camp is evacuated, the SS leaves her behind with the other sick prisoners. The arriving American soldiers save her life. She returns to her homeland. More than twenty years later, she receives the photos that an American reporter took of her and the other women from Penig.


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