Gita Feuerwerger photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Gita Feuerwerger
Biographical History
Gita Feuerwerger was born Gita Berkowitz in 1926 or 1927 the small town Săpânța, Romania, near Sighetu Marmației, Romania (Sighet, Hungary, during the war). Her family was deported to Auschwitz in spring 1944. Gita’s mother and younger brother and sisters were murdered upon arrival at Auschwitz. Gita worked in a German munition factory throughout the remainder of the war and was moved to several camps. She was escaped a death march at the end of the war. After the war, she returned to her hometown where she met and married Henry Feuerwerger (1920-1970). Henry’s parents and three of his siblings were murdered during the Holocaust. Gita and Henry moved to the Prien am Chiemsee camp where they stayed for two years. Henry immigrated to the United States to rejoin his older brother, and Gita was a part of a program that sent young women to Canada to work as nannies. In Canada she lived with the Appleby family until she was admitted to the United States thanks to a Vongressional Act introduced by Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton. Gita and Henry settled in Cleveland, Ohio where they had three children, Marvin, Carol, and Philp. Henry died in 1970 of heart failure. Gita married Simcha Sachs in 1982 and died of lung cancer in 1997.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marvin C. Feuer, C. Susan Feuerwerger & Phillip H. Feuer
Philip Feuer (son of Gita Feuerwanger) donated the Feuerwanger photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 27 photographs of Gita Feuerwerger and her time spent at the International Children's Center at Prien on Chiemsee [PCIRO Team 1069] children's camp after the war.
System of Arrangement
Gita Feuerwerger photographs are arranged as a single folder.
People
- Feuerwerger, Gita, 1926-1997.
- Feuerwerger, Henry, 1920-1970.
Subjects
- Prien am Chiemsee (Germany)
- Jews--Romania--Săpânța.
- Holocaust survivors--Germany--Prien am Chiemsee.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document