Kitty Hart-Moxon, OBE was born on 1 December 1926 and is a Polish-British Holocaust survivor.
21 Facts About Kitty Hart-Moxon
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Kitty Hart-Moxon was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1943 at age 16, where she survived for two years, and was imprisoned at other camps.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon has written two autobiographies entitled I am Alive and Return to Auschwitz.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon was the second child of Karol Felix and his wife Lola Rosa Felix, who had a son five years Kitty's senior, named Robert.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon's mother was born on 18 February 1890, to a Slovakian father and his wife.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon's parents enjoyed socialising: they had a wide circle of Jewish friends, with whom they frequently went out.
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Additionally, Kitty Hart-Moxon attended a Jewish primary school, and following this, was a pupil at the Convent School of Notre Dame for a year, which although not a Jewish school, was predominantly attended by Jews.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon has stated that growing up, she was completely oblivious to the political situation in both Poland, and wider Europe, including Hitler's rise to power.
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In late August 1939, while on holiday in the mountains with her mother, Kitty Hart-Moxon went canoeing, and ended up disappearing down the river.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon considers the family's flight from Bielsko the first time she felt the effects of the war.
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On 6 April 1943, when Kitty Hart-Moxon was 16, she and her mother arrived at Auschwitz.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon's mother was selected as one of 100 prisoners to be removed from the camp.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon saw the commandant walking and ran to him and deferentially requested that her daughter be allowed to leave the camp with her.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon has stated it was probably due to her mother's perfect respectful formal spoken German.
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So, in November 1944, Kitty Hart-Moxon was taken along with several hundred prisoners to Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
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In September 1946, Kitty Hart-Moxon emigrated with her mother to Birmingham, England to live with her mother's sister, who had resided there since 1938.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon divorced her first husband, and by 1992, she married Phillip Moxon.
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Kitty Hart-Moxon began to receive mail by the sackful, some arriving addressed only to "Kitty, Birmingham".
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In 2014, Kitty Hart-Moxon participated in a documentary resulting in her taking a new generation to Auschwitz telling of her experience.
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In 2016, Kitty Hart-Moxon spoke to the Auschwitz Study Group about her time in Auschwitz and rejected unequivocally the story of Denis Avey who claimed to have escaped from Auschwitz.
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In 2013, Kitty Hart-Moxon was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Birmingham.