Surviving Auschwitz: ‘I just wanted to live another day’

Rozalia was living with her family in Krakow when Adolf Hitler’s troops marched into Poland in the fall of 1939. “Krakow was such a beautiful city before the Nazis came. One of the most beautiful places I have ever known”, she remembers.

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Rozalia lost her family and her youth in the Holocaust, but she never lost her will to live. “Maybe that is why I survived, I don’t know. I was also very, very lucky. It was a miracle,” she says. After the War she has tried not to think about what she had to go through. “Life goes on, you know”, she says. Asked whether she would go back to see Auschwitz today, she said: “My grandchildren have visited the museum at Auschwitz. I wouldn’t go back, I have already been there.”

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