The Elefant family in Czechoslovakia in 1928. Left to right, Helen, Edie, Magda, Klara and Ludwig.
Edith Eger was just 16 when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz in 1944. She accidentally sentenced her mother to death by revealing she was over 40. Here’s her story.
Music is playing as we arrive at Auschwitz. It’s a cold dawn in April 1944 and we’ve just been decanted from a cattle car, in which several people have died along the way.
But my father has just spied a big sign above the gates: “Arbeit macht frei,” it says – work sets you free. He is suddenly cheerful.
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