Contemporary witness talk with Grete Hamburg

Grete Hamburg was born in Hlohovec in Slovakia in 1930. Her childhood in the pious Jewish family was happy and her relationship with her younger brother Walter was very close. Under the pressure of the persecution of the Jews, the family moved several times from 1942 onwards. In 1944, she and her family were arrested, sent to a transit camp and finally deported to Auschwitz. Grete's grandparents, her father and her brother Walter did not survive the camps. He died in 1945 with 19 other children in the Bullenhuser Damm school building in Hamburg, the satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Grete and her mother did forced labor and were liberated by the US Army at the beginning of May 1945. She met her husband when she emigrated to Israel.

Grete Hamburg now lives near Tel Aviv. In 2019, she interviewed a young team there that has come together from the associations Zweitzeugen Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm e.V.

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