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Sep 28, 2017 · The Holocaust has left its mark as one of the darkest moments in history. However, even during the darkest of times, there was still love. Here, we tell you about a love story between a Nazi concentration camp prisoner and an SS Guard at Auschwitz. Helena Citronova (left) and Franz Wunsch (right) fell in love at Auschwitz. In September 1935 ...
Franz Wunsch, born in Drasenhofen on 21 March 1922 in Lower Austria, came to Auschwitz as an SS storm trooper at the age of just 20. He had joined the SS shortly after his 18 th birthday and by the time he entered service had already served on the Western and Eastern Fronts. He had his first experience of the concentration camp system during a ...
Helena Citrónová ( Hebrew: הלנה ציטרון; 26 August 1922 – 4 June 2007) [1] [2] was a Slovak Holocaust survivor. At the Auschwitz concentration camp, she had a romantic relationship with the Austrian SS- Unterscharführer Franz Wunsch.
Nov 17, 2021 · Love it Was Not is a stunning documentary by Israeli director Maya Sarfaty about a romance between young Franz Wunsch, an Austrian SS Guard, and Helena Citron, a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.
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Nov 5, 2021 · By Simi Horwitz November 5, 2021. There seems to be little doubt that SS officer Franz Wunsch was intensely in love with Helena Citron, a pretty and talented Jewish inmate in Auschwitz. Her...
Nov 4, 2021 · A composite image of SS officer Franz Wunsch and Auschwitz prisoner Helena Citron from the documentary “Love It Was Not.” (Greenwich Entertainment) By Michael Rechtshaffen. Nov. 4, 2021 4:49 PM...
Dec 7, 2021 · History gives us an actual example of what this kind of relationship actually looked like: the story of Helena Citron, who was a Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz in her teens, and Franz Wunsch, the Austrian SS officer who simply decided, while guarding her at the death camp and hearing her sing old German love songs, that she was the love of his life.
