"I will die soon and I don't want people to forget those who were killed." This is how Sheindi Miller-Ehrenwald explains her decision, at age 90, to tell the world about her experience as a prisoner of the German concentration camp at Auschwitz during World War II.
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of that camp in Poland, the story of this Israeli survivor is made known for the first time thanks to the documentary The Sheind Diary , produced by the German newspaper Bild and shown in the museums of that country.
Miller-Ehrenwald was 14 when his family was arrested in Hungary, where he was born, and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, one of the more than 40 places Germany used to carry out the Holocaust, and where six million Jews were killed and several million other minorities, such as gypsies or homosexuals.
"She was 14 years old and wrote her diary in a concentration camp," said the aforementioned media to present the 35-minute documentary, which premiered this Wednesday.
“I am surprised to have been able to write this diary, because it was a very dangerous place,” recalls Miller-Ehrenwald. His original 54-page newspaper is on display at the German Historical Museum in Berlin.
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“When I hear people denying the Holocaust and what happened there, my head could burst. Here in this newspaper is everything that happened, ”says the woman in statements reproduced by The Irish Times.
His family, which had a wine shop in the town of Galanta (now part of Slovakia), was arrested in 1942 and transferred to Auschwitz along with another 800,000 Hungarians of Jewish origin. Only her sister and she managed to survive.
"The door slams ... I can hear the keys in the lock ... drive us away from a place my father bought. A piece of my heart is broken, ”he wrote in the newspaper.
When they were taken to Auschwitz, Miller-Ehrenwald recalls: “We were locked in cars like animals, that's how I wrote it in the newspaper. But the real animals were the ones who did this to us. ”
Julian Reichelt, editor-in-chief of Bild , wrote about this case: “What millions of Germans want to keep silent, she documented it as a girl. In his courage he lives the truth. ”
Watch the documentary trailer (in German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLn9J4mRMTs&t=33s
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