In Ghetto Nagymagyar, all men between the ages of 18 and 45, her father included, were sent to a forced labor camp in Komárom, some fifty miles (80 km) from the ghetto.
Two months into the German occupation, all the Jews in that area were moved to Ghetto Nagymagyar. Jews were prohibited from entering theaters, restaurants, grocery stores, and other public places. In Somorja, the segregation of Jews began rapidly when the Germans invaded Hungary in 1944. Early life Įlli was born in Samorin, on February 28, 1931, the second child to Laura and Markus Friedmann, but in 1938, Hungarian troops occupied Samorin, renaming it Somorja. She also wrote her 1997 memoir I Have Lived a Thousand Years. She then studied at New York University, from which she received a Ph.D. on a refugee boat in 1951 to join Bubi, who was studying in New York. She, her mother and brother were liberated in 1945. Her aunt perished but her brother survived. Eventually, they were transported to Auschwitz, the largest German concentration camp, where her brother and aunt were separated from Livia and her mother. Friedmann in Samorin, Czechoslovakia, She was 13 years old when she, her mother, father, aunt and brother Bubi, were taken to Ghetto Nagymagyar. Livia Bitton-Jackson (Febru– May 17, 2023) was an author and a Holocaust survivor.
