"dreadful dreadful smell" |
"I prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed" | |
"you could smell people being burnt" |
"they never appeared again" | |
"it was the very worst time" |
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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