It’s been more than 70 years but the vivid details of Auschwitz remain fresh in the mind of 93-year-old Hedy Bohm.
“I see the barracks. I see the beaten earth that I was sleeping on. I see the total lack of colour everywhere,” said Bohm, who was 16 when she was taken from her home to the Oradea ghetto in what is now Romania and later sent to the infamous concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Bohm was separated from her parents. She remembers trying to chase after her mother before being stopped.
“That is so deep in my mind. I think it was
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