Danziger/Kibort Family
Hinda (Danziger) and Leo Kibort, survivors from Shaulai, Lithuania with children (1964). Hinda survived ghetto, Stutthof and a Death March. Leo was liberated at Dachau, 1945.
Leo Kibort died in Minneapolis in December, 2000. Hinda Kibort died in Minneapolis June 12, 2003. Obituary: Hinda Kibort spoke of the horrors of the Holocaust.
During Spring, 2003, Hinda Kibort testified in a contentious hearing at the Minnesota State Legislator when Representation Arlan Lindner asserted that homosexuals were not victims of Nazism or the Holocaust:
- House Ethics Committee hears testimony in Lindner case (Minnesota Public Radio)
- Holocaust survivor condemns lawmakers for questioning persecution (Minnesota Public Radio)
Also read Star Tribune's news coverage on Hinda Kibort As 'army of witnesses' dwindles, survivor, daughter carry message.