# Ana Balog > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ana_Balog > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ana_Balog.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Balog > Source revision: 1337717686 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Ana Balog Frenkel** (February 27, 1930 – January 1945) was a [Uruguayan](/source/Uruguayans) Jewish girl murdered in the [gas chambers](/source/Gas_chamber) of the [Auschwitz concentration camp](/source/Auschwitz_concentration_camp), during the [Holocaust](/source/Holocaust). ## Biography Ana Bálog was born on 27 February 1930 at the [Hospital Pereira Rossell](/source/Hospital_Pereira_Rossell) in [Montevideo](/source/Montevideo), Uruguay, to Segismundo Bálog, a [Christian convert to Judaism](/source/Conversion_to_Judaism), and Kornelia Frenkel, who came from an [Orthodox Jewish](/source/Orthodox_Judaism) family from [Öcs](/source/%C3%96cs).[1] Both of her parents were [Hungarian immigrants](/source/Hungarian_Uruguayans).[2] She had an older sister, Eva, born in 1928, who survived the Holocaust and later died in Uruguay in 2019.[3] Her parents, who had married in Hungary, decided to emigrate to Uruguay in 1928 due to economic difficulties and social rejection resulting from their interfaith marriage.[4] They arrived in Uruguay while Kornelia, then 19 years old, was pregnant with their first daughter. The family settled in a [tenement](/source/Tenement) house in Montevideo's [Ciudad Vieja](/source/Ciudad_Vieja,_Montevideo), where Segismundo worked as a jeweller.[4] In the late 1930s, due to the family's ongoing economic difficulties and with the aim of re-establishing their daughters’ ties with their extended family, Kornelia returned to Hungary with the children.[5] Eva was sent to live with an aunt in [Tokaj](/source/Tokaj), while Ana stayed with her maternal grandmother in [Öcs](/source/%C3%96cs).[1] Kornelia later worked as a cook at the Italian Embassy in [Budapest](/source/Budapest) and as a translator at the Argentine Embassy, aided by her knowledge of [Spanish language](/source/Spanish_language) acquired during her years in Uruguay.[6] Following the [Nazi occupation of Hungary](/source/Occupation_of_Hungary_by_Nazi_Germany_(disambiguation)), the family was separated. Kornelia found refuge at the Argentine Embassy, while Eva, with the assistance of a non-Jewish Hungarian woman, was able to reunite with her mother. Ana, who remained with her maternal grandmother, was arrested and deported to the [Auschwitz concentration camp](/source/Auschwitz_concentration_camp), where both were murdered in the gas chambers.[7] Through the intervention of the Argentine diplomatic mission, Kornelia and Eva obtained diplomatic passports, enabling them to escape to Sweden and later return to Uruguay.[8] ## Legacy In 2007, Uruguayan President [Tabaré Vázquez](/source/Tabar%C3%A9_V%C3%A1zquez) submitted to [Yad Vashem](/source/Yad_Vashem) official documentation and information held by the Uruguayan government regarding Ana Balog, including her birth certificate.[9] In 2009, a commemorative plaque in her honor was installed at the [Holocaust Memorial](/source/Holocaust_Memorial,_Montevideo) in Montevideo.[10] ## References 1. Lamstein, Ilana (2023-10-07). [""Intermitencias" Interview to Irina Raffo"](https://www.ilanalamstein.com/en/post/intermitencias-interview-to-irina-raffo). *Ilana*. Retrieved 2026-01-26. 1. ["Homenaje a única víctima uruguaya del holocausto"](https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/homenaje-a-unica-victima-uruguaya-del-holocausto-20114111930) (in es-UY). *El Observador*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20240803004026/https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/homenaje-a-unica-victima-uruguaya-del-holocausto-20114111930) 2024-08-03 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2026-01-26. 1. ["Eva Balog Frenkel"](https://www.elobservador.com.uy/servicios/funebres/eva-balog-frenkel-br-20190206) (in es-UY). *El Observador*. Retrieved 2026-01-26. 1. Facal Santiago & Racioppi Rüsch 2018, p. 59. 1. Gilban, Marcus M. (2016-06-02). ["Renovated Uruguay Holocaust memorial rededicated"](https://www.jta.org/2016/06/02/global/renovated-uruguay-holocaust-memorial-rededicated). *Jewish Telegraphic Agency*. Retrieved 2026-01-26. 1. Facal Santiago & Racioppi Rüsch 2018, p. 60. 1. ["Decreto N°. 33.005 de la Junta Departamental de Montevideo"](https://juntamvd.gub.uy/viejo/data/decretos/3364/33005.htm). *Junta Departamental de Montevideo* 1. Facal Santiago & Racioppi Rüsch 2018, p. 78. 1. ["Vázquez homenajeó a víctimas del holocausto recordando a la única uruguaya que falleció en un campo nazi"](https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/vazquez-homenajeo-a-victimas-del-holocausto-recordando-a-la-unica-uruguaya-que-fallecio-en-un-campo-nazi--201612720220) (in es-UY). *El Observador*. Retrieved 2026-02-10. 1. ["Resolución Nº 3147/09"](https://www.montevideo.gub.uy/asl/sistemas/gestar/Resoluci.nsf/9c58528e7d7b0c24832579430045924a/c7d7c42639326e0d832576230069039f?OpenDocument). *www.montevideo.gub.uy*. Retrieved 2026-02-10. ## Bibliography - Facal Santiago, Silvia & Racioppi Rüsch, Florencia (2018). *Desde los confines del mundo magiar a Uruguay: Inmigración judía de habla húngara en Uruguay (1920-1957)* [From the Edges of the Magyar World to Uruguay: Hungarian-Speaking Jewish Immigration to Uruguay (1920–1957)] (in Spanish). 1st ed. Montevideo: Linardi & Risso. ISBN 9789974675896. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ana Balog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Balog) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Balog?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.