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Mindu Hornick: Interview with an Auschwitz survivor
To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we hear from Mindu Hornick, who was 13 when she and her family arrived at the concentration camp in 1939.
"We thought we had entered hell." These are the recollections of Auschwitz survivor Mindu Hornick. In an interview with the 麻豆官网首页入口's Tim Franks, she recalls, in vivid detail, the last memory of her mother who was taken to the gas chamber; the Yiddish-speaking prison worker who saved her life; the terror of selection by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele; and the desperation of hunger, and rations laced with sawdust and bromide.
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