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It tells the true story of how two Jewish prisoners, Lale, an Auschwitz tattooist, and Gita, who he tattooed, fell in love. Morris, an Australian writer, spent three years interviewing Lale Sokolov piecing together a story which she says, "had to be told."
Sep 28, 2017 · 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.
- 10Jerzy Bielecki and Cyla Cybulska
- 9Manya and Meyer Korenblit
- 8John Rothschild Saves His Fiance
- 7David and Perla Szumiraj
- 6Margrit and Henry “Heinz” Baerman
- 5Olga Watkins and Julius Koreny
- 4Howard and Nancy Kleinberg
- 3Joseph and Rebecca Bau
- 2Gerda and Kurt Klein
- 1Cyla and Simon Wiesenthal
Cyla Cybulska was shipped to Auschwitz with her parents and siblings in 1943. She was the only member of her family who left the camp alive, and she owed her life entirely to a man named Jerzy Bielecki. Jerzy had been in the camp for three years when Cyla arrived. He was a Roman Catholic, imprisoned for helping the Polish resistance. She was a Jew....
The story of Manya and Meyer Korenblit has been described by their son as one of miracles. They were two Jewish teenagers in love when Nazis began rounding up people in their Polish town of Hrubieszow. At first, they were placed in ghettos, but they were later carted away to a concentration camp. By the end of the war, 98 percentof the town’s Jewis...
Swiss Jew John Rothschild met his future wife Renee in 1939. She was German and had been living in France since the Nazis came to power in 1933. She was forced to leave her home in Strasbourg when the city was evacuated by French authorities as preparation for the pending Nazi invasion. Renee knew John’s family, and they invited her to stay at thei...
David Szumiraj went to Auschwitz in late 1942. During his time there, he tended potato fields, where he worked near a young woman named Perla. The two weren’t allowed to speak, but when guards weren’t looking they made eye contact. The shared glances were enough for the two to develop feelings for each other. Once they were able to talk for the fir...
Before Heinz Baerman died in 2013, he and his wife Margrit spent much of their time telling their experiences of the Holocaust to younger generations. They spoke to children in schools and museums about the beatings and starvation they’d experienced at the hands of the Nazis—but also about the shared love that got them through it. They had met not ...
It was 1943 when 20-year-old Olga Watkins met a Hungarian diplomat named Julius Koreny in her home city of Zagreb, Croatia. Olga later described him as “hardly my type, but our feelings for each other grew.” The two got engaged, but Julius was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in Budapest. Olga had no intention of abandoning her man, so she made...
Bergen-Belsen was hellish even by concentration camp standards. Thousands of corpses were piled high around the camp, and it was overrun with typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis. A lack of food had forced some captives to resort to cannibalism. When the camp was liberated by the British, there were over 38,000 prisoners, but most were so ill that onl...
Love was forbidden among the Jews in Nazi concentration camps. However, Joseph Bau and Rebecca Tennenbaum were not people who gave in to the Nazis. Before he was imprisoned, Joseph had used his skill as an artist to create fake documents that saved hundreds of lives. On February 13, 1944, the couple married in the women’s barracks of the Plaszow fo...
When Barack Obama presented Gerda Weissmann-Klein with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010, he said, “She has taught the world that it is often in our most hopeless moments that we discover the extent of our strength and the depth of our love.” The strength referred to 60 years working as an author and campaigner for human rights. The love re...
We’ve mentioned Simon Wiesenthal before. The Austrian Jew survived the Holocaust and later helped hunt down thousands of Nazi war criminals. But the story of his marriage to Cyla Wiesenthal is every bit as spectacular as the story of his fight for justice. Cyla and Simon married in 1936 and lived in the Polish city of Lvov, which is today part of U...
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The rest had been transported to Nazi camps. Friends and resistance members helped the Blumenstocks find hiding places and fake documents.
Jan 23, 2024 · For countless others, this most notorious of Nazi concentration camps was a surreal hell of starvation, torture, forced labor and disease — a place where, as one guard famously told the Italian...
Mar 1, 2024 · Can true love be forged in a Nazi concentration camp? Sex, probably, but abiding love? Journalist Keren Blank feld’s Lovers in Auschwitz , an account of an unlikely love story, provides a strong and poignant answer eight decades after the Holocaust.
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Apr 10, 2020 · Plaszow concentration camp, Poland, 1943: “Standing in the dark against her barrack wall the couple can briefly share each other’s troubles and a kiss. These late-night rendezvous keep them ...
