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TOPSHOT - Holocaust survivor Henia Bryer, 100, shows her identification number tattoo, at her residence in Cape Town on January 8, 2025. Henia Bryer was born in 1924, in Radom, Poland, one of four children. Bryer was deported with her family to the Radom Ghetto in 1942 where she spent one year working in a forced labour workshop, sewing and fixing German Army uniforms. During this time, Bryer's brother Yehuda was killed by the Nazis for being disabled. In March 1944 she was deported with her family to the Majdanek death camp where she worked in a basket weaving workshop. The baskets for German bombs. Approximately 6-8 weeks later, the family was deported to the Plaszow labour camp, where Henia Bryer pushed iron wagons with stones up a hill every day before being chosen to work for a number of SS women in the camp, doing housework. It was during her time in Plaszow that Bryer's father (Elimelech) was killed and her sister Mila, 12, sent on a transport and killed in the gas chambers. In approximately October 1944 (erev Yom Kippur) she was deported to Auschwitz. After surviving the selection in Auschwitz-Birkenau, she was moved to Auschwitz 1 (Musterlager) where she worked in "strassenkommando" carrying stones from dismantled structures. In January 1945 she was taken on a forced Death March from Auschwitz, Poland, to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. The first leg of the journey (3 days) was a forced march, followed by being put into open wagons in the snow. Bergen-Belsen was characterised by starvation, rampant disease and death, and Bryer contracted typhus and got frostbite. She was liberated by the British in April 1945. After the war, she went to Stuttgart to reunite with her mother Mania. They lived in Paris for 2 years with an uncle, and travelled to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1947, where she and her mother reunited with her brother Avraham. She met and married her husband Maurice in Israel and they moved to South Africa in the early 1950s. (Photo by GIANLUIGI G
2025-01-08
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