Student Profile: Felicja Lusia Karo

As no results were found regarding Felicja being transferred out of the ghetto to be used for slave labor at Auschwitz (Auschwitz or the HASAG-Pelcery camp near Czetochowa), the assumption follows that she was not deported to Auschwitz. However, after finding her biography, she tells of being transported to Auschwitz and her subsequent life.

Two dates are cited for her deportation/arrival at Auschwitz. As those dates are only one day apart, we can infer that Felicja was deported in August of 1944 on either the 16th or 17th to Auschwitz. After Auschwitz, Karo was transferred to both Bad-Kudova and Graeban, as cited in her biography, only to end in Bergen-Belsen.

Subsequently, according to USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia, Felicja Karo was liberated by British troops from Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945.

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Felicia Karo Weingarten survived the Lodz Ghetto and several concentration camps. She left for the United States on April 8, 1948. (The Red Jacket, Felicia Karo Weingarten)

She married Holocaust survivor Leon Weingarten in New York in September 1948. They later moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where Felicia began a career as both a speaker and author, hoping to tell her life story to the world.

Leon and Felicia had two sons: Jeffrey and Steven. (www.mnhs.org)

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