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at9579948 — 2025-05-06 16:07:50 UTC

“When we arrived in Belsen, I saw those skeletons and I said to myself 'I am not going to die like that'.”

“You could not distinguish if they were men or women - bones, skeletons, children's bodies. You can't possibly imagine the state of the place, it was horrendous.”

"I wear a lot of perfume. The stench of the camps will always stay with me and I try to block it out.”

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at9579948 — 2025-05-06 16:08:36 UTC

https://vimeo.com/274073215

Fact #1

at9579948 — 2025-05-06 16:13:55 UTC

Gena Turgel, born Gena Goldfinger in 1923, was a Holocaust survivor of the Holocaust. She was put into two different concentration camps. Surprisingly Gena survived both of these.

Fact #2

at9579948 — 2025-05-06 16:22:59 UTC

She cared for Anne Frank in Bergen-Belson. Gena washed her face and gave her water. She was a very important person in Anne Frank's life because she wouldn't have survived without her help.

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:11:06 UTC

This photo shows Gena Turgel on her wedding day. She married her British liberator Norman Turgel.

Fact #3

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:13:47 UTC

She cared for Anne Frank in Bergen-Belson. Gena and Norman married six months after the liberation. They were a happy couple.

Fact #4

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:17:35 UTC

She published her memoir, "I Light a Candle," in 1987, which became a tool for Holocaust education. She educated people about the Holocaust. She published it to tell her extraordinary story and as a memorial to her family and the Jewish that were murdered.

Fact #5

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:20:04 UTC

She was brought into a gas chamber with hundreds of people. People now can't even imagine what she felt and how scared she was. Gena probably watched others as they slowly died.

Fact #6

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:25:34 UTC

She was 21 at the time. That day she walked out alive. People were surprised at her story and were shocked to see her alive.

Fact #7

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:28:33 UTC

She had no idea the Nazi’s were trying to kill her. A sweet lady came by and told her that she was in a gas chamber and she should be glad to be alive. So, she tried her best to figure out what happened.

Fact #8

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:30:06 UTC

She was 16 when her hometown of Krakow, Poland, was bombed by the Nazi Luftwaffe on Sept. 1, 1939, the first day of the war. Gena's mother carried on the family business. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, her family was ordered to give up all their belongings.

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:39:57 UTC

In this image it shows when Gena is telling her story to the pupils.

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:42:01 UTC

In this photo it shows when Gena was recalling horrible memories from life at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belson.

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:45:47 UTC

This photo shows Gena at Anne Frank's funeral holding a candle. She cared for and helped Anne Frank live.

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:48:13 UTC

In this photo Gena was just told the news that the Nazi's told her sister to "dig her grave".

at9579948 — 2025-05-07 15:50:38 UTC

This shows a photo of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.