Letters concerning Betty Katz and the home for the blind in Terezin letters photographs.

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Letters concerning Betty Katz and the home for the blind in Terezin letters photographs.

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Consists of original letters (accompanied by English translations concerning Betty Falk Katz and the home for blind persons in Terezin. The letters describe the conditions for Jews in Berlin during the Holocaust, deportation of Katz and patients of the Institute for Jewish Blinds to Terezin, and the death of Katz in Terezin. Also included are photographs of Katz's grave in Theresienstadt and a sketch of Katz completed by her son, Lothar Katz.

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Katz, Betty.

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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...

Katz, Betty Falk.

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Institute for the Jewish Blind (Berlin, Germany)

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Sommerfeld, Angela

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Katz, Peter

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