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Gena Turgel was a Jewish Polish author. She was born in Kraków in 1923, the youngest of nine children of Samuel and Estera Goldfinger.[3] Her parents ran a small textile business. She died June 7th of 2018 at the age of 95.

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She often described being sent naked into a building with others, supposedly for a disinfecting shower; nothing happened for a long time, though eventually water came on. She concluded later that the building was a gas chamber, and that a malfunction or some other intercession had saved her life.

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She has been a survivor ever since and told people about her life journey.

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Quotable Quotes, Survivor’s Story, and/or Link and Title of Informational Website:

"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."

Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel, consoler of Anne Frank, dies

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Describe Relevant Image(s) Saved: They all talk about how she survived and inspired people worldwide.

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Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel, consoler of Anne Frank, dies

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In 1945, 22-year-old Turgel cared for 15-year-old Anne Frank as she was dying from typhus in a concentration camp hospital.