Pessa Balter / Paula Lebovics (Poland, 1933)

Pessa Balter / Paula Lebovics (F / Poland, 1933) is a child survivor of the Holocaust.

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NOTES : Pessa Balter was born in Ostrowiec, Poland in September 1933. She was sent to Auschwitz when she was 10. She survived in the camp among the Mengele Twins until January 27, 1945, when the Red Army arrived. She was reunited with her mother, also an Auschwitz survivor. They both emigrated to the United States in 1952.

She is present in an iconic Auschwitz picture, together with other Auschwitz children, including Miriam Ziegler, Gabor Hirsch, and Eva & Miriam Mozes:

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