My recollections? The worst time of my life was the war. My whole family was taken to a concentration camp. My sister and I were the only people who survived out of our family. My mother, aunt and her children died in the camp, my uncle died in Auschwitz ...

To this day, whenever I hear anything about concentration camps my blood runs cold and I start crying. I still have terrible dreams where I’m incredibly hungry and I have to carry stones. Sometimes I start screaming in my sleep, and my son has to wake me up and I can’t get back to sleep again. All these years and still I dream of it!

A huge number of people died there because of bad food, beatings, and typhoid … and some of the camps had the gas chambers. But for me the worst were the beatings and the hunger. I was still young … my sister still walks with a limp which she acquired there.

These days it’s all in the past …. Although sometimes I worry about my children, there is so much racism here ….

But one should never forget, that would be bad!

 
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