Margit Feldman

Margit Buchhalter was born June 12, 1929, in Budapest, Hungary. Her parents were Joseph and Theresa Buchhalter. The family lived in Tolcsva, Hungary. Her family was moved into a Nazi ghetto in another town. Buchhalter was transported to a women's camp in Gruenberg, where she met Gerda Weissmann Klein. Buchhalter was in the death march from Gruenberg to Bergen-Belsen. On April 15, 1945, Bergen-Belsen was liberated. When liberated Buchhalter suffered from pleurisy and pneumonia, and had suffered injuries from the explosives set off by German soldiers in an attempt to destroy the camp. Buchhalter was one of two family members to survive out of the 68 who were transported to concentration camps. Buchhalter moved to Sweden, where she recovered. She emigrated to the United States in 1947, and moved to New York, where she lived with her aunt Harriet Boehm, and cousins. ==Career==

Buchhalter became an X-ray technician. Feldman co-founded the Raritan Valley Community College Institute for Holocaust & Genocide Studies in 1981. She also co-founded the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education with then New Jersey state assemblyman Jim McGreevey in 1991. In 1994, she supported a bill mandating Holocaust and genocide curriculum in New Jersey schools. She served as president of the Jewish Federation of Somerset & Warren Counties and chair of the United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bonds Campaigns. She was also president of the Jewish Home for the Aged, vice president of Congregation Knesseth Israel and a member of Temple Sholom in Bridgewater, New Jersey. In 2003, she co-authored the autobiography ''Margit: A teenager's journey through the Holocaust and beyond''. ==Personal life==

In 1953, she married Harvey Feldman, who she met while hospitalized to recover from tuberculosis. In 2016, Peppy Margolis directed a documentary about Feldman, entitled Not A23029. Michael Berenbaum narrated the short film. Death Feldman lived in Somerset, New Jersey, until her death on April 14, 2020, from COVID-19-related complications. ==Works==

• with Bernard Weinstein. ''Margit: A teenager's journey through the Holocaust and beyond''. Scottsdale: Princeton Editorial Associates (2003). ==References==