Zuzana Gruenberger Research Paper

Zuzana Gruenberger was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia on March 3, 1933. She was the youngest of three children and her most used nickname was Zuzi. Zuzana’s father's occupation was a tailor, and he worked where they lived. When the first Hungarian troops marched into Kosice, Zuzana was five years old. Soon after their arrival the Hungarian troops began to enforce anti-Jewish laws; these laws were said to be welcomed by the Hungarian government.
The second big change that happened in the town where Zuzana lived was that her and her family were sent to other Hungarian camps. The only family members that did not make the trip were Zuzana’s brother and father; they were sent off to be slave workers. This happened in 1941 and Zuzana would remain

in the Hungarian camps until she was moved with her mother and sister to Auschwitz. Zuzana was moved from the Hungarian camps in 1944; by this time she was eleven years old. Soon after arriving both Zuzana and her mother were sent to the gas chambers where they were both killed.
The only two family members that survived the Holocaust were Zuzana’s older brother, Dezider, and her sister, Edit. Edit gruenberger was not selected to be gassed in the “showers”, but instead she was chosen to be a slave worker. Edit remained in the camps until 1945 when she was liberated. Not long after Edit was liberated did she immigrate to West Germany. Dezider Gruenberger was sent in 1941, with his father, to be slave workers in a different Hungarian camp. After a few years of worker as a slave worker Dezider and one of his friends decided to escape because they heard that the Soviets were closing in. They were hidden by a peasant for a little while, and then in 1944 Dezider was liberated. He later immigrated to the US.