Thirty members of her relatives were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Then, in 1978, Yorkshire Television (YTV), while doing background research on a project about women who risked their lives to save others during the Nazi era, producer Peter Morleys team learned about Hart-Moxon and convinced him to meet her. She was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1943 at age 16. This began with her first novel I Am Alive (1961), a fairly short account of her life in Auschwitz. Her father operated an agricultural supply business. Shortly after her liberation in April 1945 by American soldiers, she moved to England with her mother, where she married and dedicated her life to raising awareness of the. She was sent to the Auschwitz labour camp in 1943 at the age of 16, where she survived for two years, and was also imprisoned at other camps. She had one brother, Robert, who was five years older. Kitty Hart-Moxon, OBE (born 1926) is a Polish-English Holocaust survivor. Kitty Hart-Moxon was born Kitty Felix in 1926, in the southern Polish town of Bielsko. Sophie Shad is raising funds for 'Kitty's Fortune' - A short film set during the Holocaust on Kickstarter Auschwitz 1943 - A young Kitty Hart-Moxon is told by a fortune-teller that she will one day again be free. Hart-Moxon’s father was murdered in the Holocaust and her brother was killed in action. Kitty Hart-Moxon, OBE (born 1 December 1926) is a Polish-English Holocaust survivor. She has written two autobiographies entitled I am Alive and Return to Auschwitz. In 1946, she and her mother received permits to settle in the UK.
The two were then sent to Bergen-Belsen, from where they were liberated by American troops in April 1945. Pretending to be Polish forced laborers, Hart-Moxon and her mother were betrayed and captured and received a death sentence which was then commuted to imprisonment at Auschwitz-Birkenau.Īfter a year and a half, the two were sent to a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen near Wrocław before they were sent on a death march to another labor camp.
In a 2010 interview, she said she had no awareness of antisemitism until as a schoolgirl, she and her Jewish swimming team had stones thrown at them during a competition.įollowing the Nazi invasion, her family fled to Lublin, escaping with forged documents before they could be put into the ghetto, according to a profile by the UK’s Holocaust Education Trust. Hart-Moxon was born in Bielsko in Poland, the second child of liberal Jews Karol Felix and his wife Lola Rosa Felix.
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