Esther Miron
Esther Miron (F / Hungary, 1929), Holocaust survivor
Biography
Holocaust survivor Esther Miron was born in Janoshaza, Hungary in 1929. In May 1944, she was deported to the Children’s Block in Auschwitz. While there, Esther underwent 17 selections by Mengele. Her little sister Elvira was taken away during the ninth one, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. Esther was transferred to Birkenau in the fall of 1944 and then eventually to Lenzing, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria, where she worked with toxic materials as a slave laborer. She was finally liberated by the U.S. Army in the spring of 1945 and reached the shores of Eretz Israel in April 1948. Esther studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and went on to work in the Central Zionist Archives and publish extensively on the subject of the Holocaust. “It is my mission in life to teach the next generations to continue our traditions and contribute to building a better society and a better world. I speak also in the name of the victims of the Holocaust, of my family who was murdered in Auschwitz. I do not know why I survived and they did not.” -Esther Miron