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Erna de Vries in 2016
Photo: Bernd Thissen / picture alliance / dpa
Two days after her 98th birthday, Holocaust survivor Erna de Vries will be in her home town of Lathen in Emsland on October 23
died, as reported by the NDR.
She survived the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps.
She lost her mother in Auschwitz.
Her father was a Protestant Christian, her mother a Jew.
According to the terms of the Nuremberg Laws, she was thus a "first-degree hybrid".
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Erna de Vries told her story all her life as a contemporary witness and wrote it down in a guest article for SPIEGEL last year.
In 2015, for the cover story »The Last Witnesses«, she had already been asked by SPIEGEL about her martyrdom in Auschwitz.
At that time, a team of editors had compiled the memories of 19 survivors in the US, Israel and Europe.
The story was published in January 2015 and was then published in an expanded form as a book.
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