Mary Berg's mother Lena, was an American citizen residing in the Second Polish Republic.
10 Facts About Mary Berg
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Mary Berg arrived in the United States in March 1944, at the age of 19.
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Mary Berg's memoir was serialized in American newspapers in 1944, making it one of the earliest accounts of the Holocaust to be written in English.
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We do not know for sure what happened to the few friends and two uncles that Mary Berg left behind who were still alive when she fled.
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Mary Berg resolutely refused to participate publicly in any Holocaust-related events, zealously guarding her privacy.
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Mary Berg lived in York, Pennsylvania for many years, where she wed William Pentin and was known as Mary Pentin.
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Mary Berg was something of a recluse; her neighbors didn't know she was Jewish let alone that she had lived through the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto.
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Mary Berg's known relatives, descended from her sister, Anna, who married a pathologist, Leon Williams Powell Jr.
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Mary Berg Pentin died in York, Pennsylvania, in April 2013, aged 88.
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Mary Berg's identity was discovered after her death when a part time antiques dealer bought her scrapbook at an estate sale because he was interested in her photos of aircraft.