Berta Berkovich Kohút

Berta Berkovich, known as Betka or Bracha,[2][1]: 124  was born on November 8, 1921, in Chepa, a small village then located in the eastern region of Czechoslovakia and now in Ukraine.

Despite attending a commercial high school, Berta had limited opportunities due to the rising fascism and anti-Semitism in Slovakia.

[12][13] Fuchs utilized her abilities and expertise as a former salon owner to recruit additional staff, including her niece, Rozsika, who had minimal sewing skills but assisted with picking up pins.

Her death at age 99 from COVID-19 was possibly related to the Kaiser emergency department's repeated refusal to treat her with the life-saving antiviral medication Remdesivir, in spite of her pharmacist son's pleas to do so.

[3][15][16][17] In 2017, an oral interview of Kohút was recorded in California and published in an article "My Experiences during a Three-Year Imprisonment in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp" in the journal Judaica et holocaustica in 2019.

[1]: 124  British novelist and fashion historian, Lucy Adlington, wrote The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive (2021), after interviewing Kohút.

[10][8] In a review, Laura L. Camerlengo, a costume curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, noted that the well-documented and researched publication also explores the experiences and personal stories of the seamstresses, like Kohút, who worked in the fashion studio.