Lena Goldstein hid under German uniforms and used her wits to survive the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto. Photo / Supplied, Sydney Jewish Museum
When the Nazi soldiers came to take her away to Treblinka camp and be gassed, Lena Goldstein managed to hide under a pile of German uniforms in a laundry.
It wasn’t the first or last time Lena had tricked the Nazis or watched them take someone she loved off to the extermination camps.
But the day remains seared in her mind, and as she tells her story, having just celebrated her 100th birthday in Sydney, it is with a freshness and an urgency to ensure the atrocities are not forgotten.
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