Kitty Hart-Moxon - Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

On 2 April 1943, at the age of 16, Hart-Moxon and her mother arrived at Auschwitz. They found jobs working with dead prisoners, which was less physically demanding than jobs outside the camp. In order to aid in their survival, they took items from the dead, and traded those and other items with other prisoners. At one point, Hart-Moxon became ill with typhus, but eventually recovered. Throughout their imprisonment Hart-Moxon maintained a variety of jobs, including that of night shift worker responsible for sorting through the confiscated possessions of prisoners arriving by train.

Rumors began in August 1944 that Auschwitz was to be evacuated. Hart-Moxon's mother was selected as one of one hundred prisoners to be removed from the camp. She requested that her daughter be allowed to leave the camp. The commandant, for unknown reasons, obliged. So, in November 1944, Kitty was taken along with several hundred prisoners to Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Every day, the camp occupants were marched to a nearby town to work in the Philips electronic factory.