Margit Buchhalter Feldman, who lived in New Jersey and educated children about World War Two, was two months away from celebrating her 91st birthday.
A woman who survived Auschwitz and other concentration camps during the Holocaust has died after contracting coronavirus.
Feldman, a grandmother, passed away on April 14. Her husband Harvey Feldman, whom she married in 1953, is still in hospital withShe was born on June 12, 1929, and raised in Tolcsva, Hungary. She was taken to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz when she was 15 with her parents, who were killed immediately. Against the odds, Feldman survived Auschwitz and a succession of other camps and was liberated at age 16 from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
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