Izabella katz biography of mahatma

Includes the name: Leitner Isabella

Birthdate

1924-05-28

Date of death

2009-04-19

Gender

female

Nationality

Hungary (birth)

Birthplace

Kisvarda, Hungary

Place of death

New York, New York, USA

Places of residence

Auschwitz, Poland
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Occupations

memoirist
children's book author
Holocaust survivor
educator

Short biography

Isabella Leitner, née Katz, was born to a Jewish family in the small town of Kisvárda, Hungary, one of six siblings.

In 1939, at the start of World War II, her father Menyhért Mendel Katz emigrated to the USA, where he believed he could obtain visas that would allow his family to escape the Nazis.

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Shirer came away from meeting Gandhi deeply moved, writing that the experience taught him the comparative equality of world religions.

Gandhi believed that Hindus, Muslims, and Christians could align under one nation.

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Mahatma Gandhi and His Assassin|Koenraed Elst.

But within a short time, it became impossible for Jews to leave Hungary. In March 1944, Germany invaded the country, and Hungarian policemen forced the Leitner family into a Jewish ghetto. In May of that year, 20-year-old Isabella and her fa