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Livia Bitton-Jackson
1931–2023
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- writer
Livia Bitton-Jackson (February 28, 1931 â May 17, 2023) was an author of Hungarian-Slovak origin and a Holocaust survivor.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
Biography
Livia Bitton-Jackson (February 28, 1931 â May 17, 2023) was an author of Hungarian-Slovak origin and a Holocaust survivor. She was born as Friedmann Elvira, Elli L. Friedmann in Samorin, Czechoslovakia, She was 13 years old when she, her mother, father, aunt and brother Bubi, were taken to Ghetto Nagymagyar. Eventually, they were transported to Auschwitz, the largest German concentration camp. Her aunt and father perished in the Holocaust, but her mother and brother survived. She, her mother and brother were liberated in 1945. Bitton-Jackson came to the U.S. with her mother on a refugee boat in 1951 to join Bubi, who was studying in New York. She then studied at New York University, from which she received a Ph.D. in Hebrew Culture and Jewish History.
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