Henia bryer biography for kids
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Holocaust survivor Henia Bryer: Prisoner number A
During a freezing winter Bryer, now tattooed as Auschwitz prisoner A, struggled against starvation, reciting poems to keep her mind on other things.
And, as she turned 18 in mid-December, she thought of how she should have been going to university in Rome.
She remembers telling herself: "I am too young to die, I can't die. I haven't seen anything, I haven't done anything yet."
Three months after she arrived, and two days before it was reached by Russian troops, Bryer was moved again.
During a forced march she saw the bodies of those shot because they were too tired to walk.
Arriving at the last camp, Bergen-Belsen, she saw "a huge mountain of dead bodies partly decomposing".
The camp was "the pits", she says, even compared to Auschwitz.
Visiting the camp after its liberation in April , the broadcaster Richard Dimbleby described it as a "living nightmare".
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An epic survivor's tale
This extraordinary film was made bygd Lisa Bryer, the producer of The Last King of Scotland, about her Aunt Henia.
According to the producers, when it was shown to BBC1 kontrollant Danny Cohen, he cleared the schedules so that the rulle could be the centrepiece of the Holocaust Memorial Day coverage. Having seen the minute documentary, inom can only endorse his decision
The rulle is very simple in form. It consists of the anställda testimony of Henia, with a few comments from her husband and children, and a little of that horribly familiar archive footage.
But her story needs no embellishment. It fryst vatten remarkable, even by the standards of Holocaust survivors. Born in Poland, she grew up in the town of Radom which was occupied by the Nazis in Soon after the ankomst of the Germans, the Jews were herded into the town’s ghetto. Many died either from extreme deprivation or random shootings and beatings.
Henia survived until the ghetto was liquidated. Her reward was
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Henia&#;s Story
07 Nov Henia&#;s Story
Posted at h in Military by admin
We&#;ve all heard stories of Nazi Germany, the scaries of the prisoner-of-war camp, and heartbreaking accounts of cruelty, household separation, and racial discrimination. We&#;ve had a hard time to understand how individuals might deal with other people by doing this, how fundamental decency, generosity, and empathy might slip through the fractures on such a huge scale.
Henia Bryer&#;s story is one that is tough to fathom. She saw stacks of dead bodies, and lived in a location that had no regard or regard for human life.
She was one of the females who got off the train at Auschwitz, had to remove naked and walk in front of males, get her head shaved, and sustain the pain of seeing her little sibling walk to the gas chambers. He was appointed to work in the location where they got the clothes from the detainees who had actually been eliminated. That one act of compassion most likely