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Comic strip: Ginette Kolinka, the survivor, said goodbye to Birkenau

2024-02-04T12:10:58.911Z

Highlights: 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.


The former deportee to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1944, who celebrates her 99th birthday this Sunday, refused for more than fifty years to discuss


At 99 years old this Sunday, February 4, Ginette Kolinka still seems a little uncomfortable in the costume she agreed to wear.

That of the “survivor” towards whom the microphones and cameras are stretched, repeatedly.

The one who must tell her story again and again, the arrest, the convoy, hell.

A few days ago, the town hall of Paris-Centre (3rd arrondissement), opposite Square du Temple, invited her to inaugurate an exhibition dedicated to her on the gates of the building.

She came that morning to testify.

Because she never refuses.

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“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 breathes.

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