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Sep 28, 2017 · In 1942, Franz Wunsch was serving as a 20-year old SS guard in charge of the gas chambers of Auschwitz. On his birthday, March 21, his Nazi comrades brought in a Jewish girl, Helena Citronova, to sing him birthday songs.
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.
Nov 4, 2021 · Review: ‘Love It Was Not’ focuses on a relationship that reverberates decades later. A composite image of SS officer Franz Wunsch and Auschwitz prisoner Helena Citron from the documentary ...
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.
- Zippora Tahori
- Yarkon Cemetery
- 4 June 2007 (aged 84), Tel Aviv, Israel
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.
- Risa Sarachan
Nov 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 feelings for him, however, remain...
Oct 12, 2021 · There, the SS Unterscharführer, Austrian Franz Wunsch, fell in love with her. He behaved humanely with Helena and her friends, and beat the male prisoners so that he once injured his hand.
