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LENCI FARKAS

LENCI FARKAS

(KRALOVO NAD TISOU/CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1922)

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU SEPARATED FROM FAMILY LIBERATION ESCAPE

Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

Birnbäumel/Upper Silesia

Separated from her family during the selection process

She never saw her father or brother again

February 8th 1945: Liberated by the Russians

Second escape from Romania

“We knew we could not live under communism“

Smuggled over the border to Hungary with her husband and a 15 months old child taken to Austria

Lenci passed away in October 2019.

Lest We Forget San Francisco 03-03-2019

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