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Irene Zisblatt
Carpathian–American Holocaust survivor
Irene Zisblatt (née Zegelstein; born 28 December 1929) is a Carpathian Mountains-born American Holocaust survivor.[1] She was an inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
She appeared in the 1998 documentary The Last Days and published her autobiography The Fifth Diamond in 2008.
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Biography
Irene Zegelstein was born on 28 December 1929, in the resort town of Polyana, in what is now Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine, in a house with no electricity. Her father was a co-owner of a spa, and her mother was a housewife.
Around 1939, at the age of nine, she was expelled from school, since Jewish people were forbidden to leave their houses after six in the evening or before eight in the morning. [citation needed]
On the second night of Passover, 8 April 1944, she and her family were sent to the ghetto of Munkács, which, according to Zisblatt, consisted of a former brick factory surrounded by