| LC control no. | n 81139048 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lengyel, Olga, 1918-2001 |
| Variant(s) | Lengyel, Olga, 1908-2001 Lengyel, Olga M., 1918-2001 |
| Associated country | Romania United States |
| Located | Cluj (Romania) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1918-10-19 |
| Death date | 2001-04-15 |
| Place of birth | Cluj (Romania) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| Affiliation | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | Her Souvenirs de l'au-delà€, 1946. DEENK online catalog, viewed Apr. 22, 2022 (hdg.: Lengyel, Olga, 1908-2001) Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature, 2002: pages 106-107 (Olga Lengyel, born in 1918, lived in Cluj in former Romania; author of one of the earliest published Holocaust memoirs, "Five Chimneys" (first published in French as "Souvenirs de l'au-delà€") describing her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau (deported there in May 1944). Her memoir describes Nazi medical experiments. Immigrated to New York City where she established a foundation to support Holocaust education. Recorded her oral history in 1998 with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles, California.) United States Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch (online), viewed July 20, 2023 (name: Olga Lengyel ; birth date: October 19, 1918; death date: April 15, 2001; resident of New York, N.Y.) |
| Associated language | fre |
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