Katz, Betty.

Betty Katz was the director of the Institute for Jewish Blinds in Berlin-Steglitz before the Holocaust. She was deported to the Terezin concentration camp on 14 Sep 1942 along with many blind persons from the institute in Berlin. Katz died in Terezin on 03 Jun 1944. Miss Sommerfeld was Katz's assistant at the Institute of Blinds in Berlin. She volanteerd to be deported with Katz and the institute patients and was with Katz at the time of her death in Terezin. Sommerfeld escaped to Swtizerland in Feb 1945.

From the description of Letters concerning Betty Katz and the home for the blind in Terezin letters photographs. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 86118769