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Testimony of Edith Berkin

 

"dreadful dreadful smell"
Edith Birkin

 

"I prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed"
Edith Birkin

 

"if you were old or ill looking you went the other side"
Edith Birkin

 

"you could smell people being burnt"
Edith Birkin

 

"they never appeared again"
Edith Birkin

 

"when we are liberated we are going to be dancing, and kissing"
Edith Birkin

 

"it was the very worst time"
Edith Birkin

  

 

Edith Birkin was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1927. In 1941 she entered the Lodz ghetto, Poland. She was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland in 1944. She survived a death march to Flossenberg camp in Germany and was liberated from Belsen in 1945.

 

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Testimony of Edith Berkin

"dreadful dreadful smell"

"When my father died"

"if you were old or ill looking you went the other side"

"you could smell people being burnt"

"they never appeared again"

"when we are liberated we are going to be dancing, and kissing"

"it was the very worst time"

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