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With the help of another prisoner, she was able to escape Auschwitz by getting on a train traveling across tracks running near the No. 3 gas chamber. The train took her to the [[Neuengamme concentration camp]] in Germany where shortly after she was forced to go on a "death march" as the war wound down. After marching for days upon days Zisblatt states that she and her friend escaped during a dark night as they stood between two forests. The next day, they were found by [[Americans|American]] soldiers. Her friend later died from disease the following day. She was adopted to an American family two years later.
Zisblatt was one of five [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] Holocaust survivors whose story was featured in the 1998 Academy Award-winning [[documentary]] movie, ''[[The Last Days]]'', directed by [[James Moll]] and produced by [[Steven Spielberg]].<ref>Holden, Stephen. [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B06E3D81E38F936A35751C0A96F958260 The Last Days (1998) FILM REVIEW; In Hungary, the Final Days of the 'Final Solution'] "The New York Times", February 5, 1999</ref> The documentary follows Zisblatt as she and her daughter travel back to sites of memory, including Zisblatt's childhood town, which she had not seen since her deportation in 1944. Zisblatt also visited the ghetto she was formerly placed in, before she was deported to Auschwitz. Experimental psychologist George Mastroianni, in his ''Times of Israel Blogs'' piece discussing ''The Last Days'' and a 2010 blog piece by independent scholar Joachim Neander,
==Personal life==
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