Ginette Kolinka was a deportee to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1944. She has refused for more than fifty years to discuss her experiences.
A few days ago, the town hall of Paris-Centre (3rd arrondissement) invited her to inaugurate an exhibition dedicated to her on the gates of the building. “But the question I ask myself is why me? Fortunately, a few of us have returned... It's not unpleasant, but it's embarrassing. I become some kind of star while millions of people are dead. I find it hard to be happy about it,” she says.