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Gena Goldfinger was born in Krakow in 1923, the youngest of 9 children. Gena was only 16 when her hometown of Krakow was bombed by the Nazis on September 1, 1939. Her family was herded into Krakow’s notorious, Jewish ghetto where two of her brothers lost their lives fighting the Nazis.

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Dyan, Ida. “Lifestory of Holocaust Survivor Gena Turgel MBE: United Synagogue.” Lifestory of Holocaust Survivor Gena Turgel MBE | United Synagogue, theus.org.uk/article/lifestory-holocaust-survivor-gena-turgel-mbe. Accessed 19 Dec. 2023.

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Gena Turgel (maiden name, Goldfinger) was born in Krakow on the 1st of February 1923 and died on the 7th of June 2018. . She was a Polish author, educator and Holocaust survivor.

“Survivor Profile: Gena Turgel.” Holocaust Matters, 24 Sept. 2018, www.holocaustmatters.org/survivor-profile-gena-turgel/.

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Gena Turgel, MBE - Interview with a Holocaust Survivor | Documentary | Full Movie

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Gena spent two and a half years at Plaszow concentration camp where she lost her sister Miriam. Her sister was shot for smuggling in food to the camp. She was then moved to Auschwitz.

Hendley, Shona. “At 21, Gena Turgel Was Marched into an Auschwitz Gas Chamber. She Walked out Alive.” Mamamia, Mamamia, 23 Nov. 2019, www.mamamia.com.au/gena-turgel/.

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During her two-month imprisonment at Auschwitz, the then 21-year-old faced some of the most horrendous experiences imaginable, including medical testing by the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. The experimentation was also conducted on another of her Gena’s sisters, Hela. “They injected her with petrol, to draw out her blood,” she recalled.

But perhaps the most astonishing event from her time at Auschwitz was that the Angel of Death himself (Mengele), directed the naked Gena, along with hundreds of others into a gas chamber, toward certain death; yet she managed to walk out alive.

Hendley, Shona. “At 21, Gena Turgel Was Marched into an Auschwitz Gas Chamber. She Walked out Alive.” Mamamia, Mamamia, 23 Nov. 2019, www.mamamia.com.au/gena-turgel/.

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As Gena and her mother travelled to Bergen- Belsen concentration camp, on what is now known as the ‘Death March’, temperatures plummeted below -20c and many people suffered exposure and starvation. If anyone fell to the ground due to ill health, the Nazis would shoot them dead. Despite the horrific conditions, both Gena and her mother survived the 50km + walk, where an estimated 15,000 others lost their lives.

Hendley, Shona. “At 21, Gena Turgel Was Marched into an Auschwitz Gas Chamber. She Walked out Alive.” Mamamia, Mamamia, 23 Nov. 2019, www.mamamia.com.au/gena-turgel/.

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Greta remained at the camp, alongside her mother until it was liberated by the British in 1945.

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One Sunday Gena was sterilizing equipment when she saw tanks driving into the compound.  The soldiers on the tanks said ‘we are British – we have come to liberate you’.  The date was 15 April 1945.

Hendley, Shona. “At 21, Gena Turgel Was Marched into an Auschwitz Gas Chamber. She Walked out Alive.” Mamamia, Mamamia, 23 Nov. 2019, www.mamamia.com.au/gena-turgel/.

Dyan, Ida. “Lifestory of Holocaust Survivor Gena Turgel MBE: United Synagogue.” Lifestory of Holocaust Survivor Gena Turgel MBE | United Synagogue, theus.org.uk/article/lifestory-holocaust-survivor-gena-turgel-mbe. Accessed 19 Dec. 2023.

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"My story is the story of one survivor, but it is also the story of 6 million who perished," she said at the event in London's Hyde Park. "Maybe that's why I was spared — so my testimony would serve as a memorial like that candle that I light, for the men, women and children who have no voice."

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"My story is the story of one survivor, but it is also the story of 6 million who perished," she said at the event in London's Hyde Park. "Maybe that's why I was spared — so my testimony would serve as a memorial like that candle that I light, for the men, women and children who have no voice."

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/holocaust-survivor-gena-turgel-consoler-anne-frank-dies-n881811#

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https://theus.org.uk/article/lifestory-holocaust-survivor-gena-turgel-mbe