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Hana Greenfield 1926 - 2014
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Hana Greenfield (nee Lustigová) was born in Kolín, Czechoslovakia, on November 3, 1926 and was sent during the Holocaust to concentration camps in Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and after a short period in London made aliya, married Murray and had three children.Gefen Publishing House published her memoirs, Fragments of Memory: From Kolin to Jerusalem (1998, revised edition 2006), in English (the work has also appeared in Hebrew, Czech, German, and Russian), for which she received the Axel Springer Fund Award.She was the initiator of Yad Vashem’s Survivors Speak Out program and founder of a high school program in Jewish history and Holocaust education for Czech youth, for which she was honored by then-Czech president Vaclav Havel. In addition, she was on the board of the Terezin Ghetto Museum, and her research on the children of Bialystok was published by Germany’s Max Planck Institute.From her Eulogy published in the Jerusalem Post.
