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Ágnes Bartha

1922–2018

Nationality
Hungary
Occupation
photographer

Ágnes Galambos Bartha (née Schwartz, 26 October 1922 – 9 May 2018) was a Hungarian photographer and Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor.

Incarceration history

Biography

Ágnes Galambos Bartha (née Schwartz, 26 October 1922 – 9 May 2018) was a Hungarian photographer and Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor. Together with her friend Edith Kiss she was deported to Ravensbrück in the autumn of 1944 and then transferred to the Daimler-Benz factory at Ludwigsfelde where she was forced to work on aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe. After escaping from a death march in April 1945, she returned with Kiss to Budapest. Since 1992, she talked about her experiences of deportation and concentration camps, taking part in a number of exhibitions and films.