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Gena Turgel was born as Gena Goldfinger on February 1, 1923 in Krakow, Poland as the youngest of nine siblings. During the invasion of Poland, Gena, her mother, and her siblings Willek, Janek, Miriam, and Hela were taken to a ghetto. Willek and Miriam were both killed in the ghetto. Janek escaped the ghetto. Gena, Hela, and her mother were taken to death camps. 7 of her siblings and her father were all dead

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Gena Turgel walked out of a Nazi death chamber alive in 1944. Before she was sentenced to death she survived multiple concentration camps. Her main act of resistance was that she wrote a book about her experience of the holocaust called I Light a Candle.

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Gena Turgel spoke out against anti-semitism in the modern world until she died in 2018 aged 95.
Gena Turgel also wrote a book called I light a candle about her experience.

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Gena's sister Miriam slept on her left side every night and now Gena feels a constant chill on her left arm. She also has said that she always wears a lot of perfume to block out the stench of the death and concentration camps that she was at.

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Norman Turgel: Norman Turgel (above left) was a British soldier who helped to free Auschwitz. After that Gena Turgel (above right) showed him around the hospital where she worked and they eventually got married.

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Her brother Willek was shot and killed by the SS through the window of their home while he stood on a chair beside the window to reach a suitcase on top of a wardrobe. Another brother, Janek, escaped and Turgel never saw him after that.

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Auschwitz Survivor Gena Turgel Walked Out of Gas Chamber Alive

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Of all the stories of survival from Auschwitz concentration camp, Gena Turgel’s is one of the most astonishing.

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