https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m en-us 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC 2022-03-22 18:14:13 UTC hello@padlet.com ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397763 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397763 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397764 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.]]> 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397764 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397766 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397766 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397767 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.]]> 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397767 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397768 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397768 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397770 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397770 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397771 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397771 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397772 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397772 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397774 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.]]> 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397774 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397775 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]]> 2022-03-18 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2102397775 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2105985412 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.]]> 2022-03-21 18:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2105985412 ogeorg https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2108130679 2022-03-22 18:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ogeorg/e2zz61fcwhd5770m/wish/2108130679