Olga Lengyel

Olga Lengyel
Born	1908 Transylvania, Romania
Died	2001 (aged 93)
Occupation	Author

Olga Lengyel (October 19, 1908–April 15, 2001) was a Romanian woman who became a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and later wrote about her experiences in her book Five Chimneys.

Life and career

Olga Lengyel was a trained surgical assistant in Cluj, Romania, working in the hospital where her husband, Dr. Miklos Lengyel, was director. She was deported with her husband, parents and children to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, south-west Poland, in the spring of 1944. She was the only member of the family to survive. She wrote about her experiences in the Holocaust in her autobiography, Five Chimneys, first published in 1947. After the war, she emigrated to the United States. According to the website of the Memorial Library, Olga founded the Memorial Library, located at 58 East 79th Street, which was chartered by the University of the State of New York. Olga died in 2001 at the age of 93, having battled and survived three separate bouts of cancer.

In 2006, the Memorial Library began the Holocaust Educator Network, a national program for teachers interested in and committed to Holocaust education, especially in rural schools and small towns, in a partnership with the National Writing Project's Rural Sites Network. The program is directed by Dr. Sondra Perl, author of On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate.

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See also

• List of Holocaust survivors

References

1. ^ http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/rghl_01/rghl_01_00138.html
2. ^ http://jewwishes.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/jew-wishes-on-five-chimneys-by-olga-lengyel/
3. ^ http://www.thememoriallibrary.org/olga.html

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Name	Lengyel, Olga
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Date of birth	1908
Place of birth	Transylvania, Romania
Date of death	2001
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