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IRENE SZULMAN

IRENE SZULMAN

POLAND 1928

GHETTO FOR FOUR YEARS SEVERAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS DREAMED OF KILLING HER TORMENTORS “OVERNIGHT, I WAS HUMAN.” SHE CAN NEITHER FORGIVE OR FORGET

Imprisoned in a ghetto for four years
Auschwitz concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Dreamed of killing her tormentors
In April 1945, a U.S. soldier offered her a gun and told her she could shoot anyone/She was terrified
“Overnight, I was human.”
She did not want to see them dead anymore
but she can neither forgive or forget

Lest We Forget Pittsburgh 05-04-2019

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