Kitty Hart-Moxon, born December 1, 1926, is a Polish-English Holocaust Survivor. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1943 at the age of 16, where she survived two years with her mother, and was also imprisoned at other camps. This is her story.
Kitty’s family went to the vicarage of Father Krasowski, where her father bribed some officials and obtained false documents for her and her mother. With these passports, birth certificates, and identity cards, the two were smuggled onto a train of Polish workers bound for Germany. The family split up to increase their chance of survival. Kitty went with her mother to I.G. Farben in Bitterfield and commenced working at a rubber factory.
On March 13, 1943 Kitty and her mother were betrayed and taken to Gestapo
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For a while Kitty worked at Kanada. Kanada was where the Nazis to all of the prisoners belongings and suitcases and just threw them into a giant jumbled-up mess. Kitty’s job was to sort out the men’s jackets from other stuff so she would go and one by one look through all of the suitcases and had to find all of the men’s jackets. Sometimes she would take the paper money and use it as toilet paper.
There was a place called the White House in Auschwitz where there was a line of people and when someone walked in you heard a shot then the next person walked in.
To dispose of these corpses the Nazis took the bodies to giant pits and burned them.
While people were waiting to go into the gas chambers they were told that they had to take off their clothes but they thought that they were going their belongings back they didn’t know that they were being lied to. As they were being gassed Kitty said that you could hear the people screaming but after about 20 minutes it was silent. When they incinerated the bodies they dumped them into