(((Holocaust))) survivor Gena Turgel, consoler of Anne Frank, dies

[Skinhead Zack]

The only good Jew is a dead Jew.




NBC News

In 1945, 22-year-old Turgel cared for 15-year-old Anne Frank as she was dying from typhus in a concentration camp hospital.

Jun.10.2018 / 4:59 PM ET / Source: Associated Press



Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel examines a Holocaust memorial board at Belfast city hall, ahead of speaking at the UK's main commemoration for National Holocaust Memorial Day.
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LONDON — Gena Turgel, a Holocaust survivor who comforted Anne Frank at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before the young diarist's death and the camp's liberation a month later, has died. She was 95.

Turgel died Thursday, Britain's chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said on Twitter. The news triggered tributes from some of the people the Polish native touched in the decades she shared her World War II experiences, including witnessing the horrors of the Nazi camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen.

After World War II, Turgel married one of Bergen-Belsen's British liberators, Norman Turgel, earning the nickname "The Bride of Belsen." Her wedding dress, made from parachute silk, is part of the collection of the Imperial War Museum in London.

Turgel attended Britain's annual Holocaust remembrance event two months ago, sitting in a wheelchair with a blanket draped over her knees.

"My story is the story of one survivor, but it is also the story of 6 million who perished," she said at the event in London's Hyde Park. "Maybe that's why I was spared — so my testimony would serve as a memorial like that candle that I light, for the men, women and children who have no voice."

Born in Krakow, Poland as Gena Goldfinger on Feb. 1, 1923, Turgel and her family were forced to move into a Jewish ghetto with only a sack of potatoes, some flour and a few belongings in late 1941. One brother was shot by SS police and another disappeared after trying to escape, according to the Holocaust Educational Trust in London.

A sister of hers was shot while trying to smuggle food into a labor camp. In January 1945, Turgel and her mother were forced onto a death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, leaving her remaining sister behind. They were forced to abandon her remaining sister when they were ld. In February 1945, they arrived at Bergen-Belsen in Germany.

It was in a hospital at Bergen-Belsen, where Turgel arrived in February 1945, that the 22-year-old Turgel cared for 15-year-old Anne Frank as she was dying from typhus.

"I washed her face, gave her water to drink, and I can still see that face, her hair and how she looked," Turgel once told the BBC.

Turgel published a memoir, "I Light a Candle," in 1987 and kept retelling her story in schools across Britain until the end of her life.

"Gena dedicated her life to sharing her testimony to hundreds of thousands in schools across the country. Her story was difficult to hear - and difficult for her to tell, but no one who heard her speak will ever forget," Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he met Turgel at the Hyde Park event in April and was "inspired by her lifelong commitment to educating people about the horrors of the Holocaust.

"Let us hope for a better future where anti-Semitism and all hatred should be demolished, shouldn't be tolerated," Turgel said at the time. "And I do beg you, don't forget those who are less fortunate than yourselves. "

She is survived by her three children, as well as grandchildren and great grandchildren.



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[Skinhead Zack]

Auschwitz Survivor Gena Turgel Walked Out of Gas Chamber Alive
Jan.26.2015 / 9:26 PM ET


LONDON — Of all the stories of survival from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Gena Turgel's is one of the most astonishing.

“When I think back, I have to pinch myself sometimes to see if I’m really alive," the 90-year-old told NBC News.


Turgel, an elegant woman with more than a hint of mischief in her blue eyes, survived not one or two, but three Nazi concentration camps.

In the most notorious of all, Auschwitz-Birkeanau, she was herded naked into a gas chamber with hundreds of others.

Yet Turgel, who was 21 at the time, walked out alive.

She had no idea the Nazis had tried to kill her until a woman she knew said, “Don’t you know what has just happened to you? You were in the gas chamber!”

Turgel still looks amazed to have cheated death.

"I completely lost my voice," she said. "I just never realized I was in the gas chamber ... it must not have worked."

"I wear a lot of perfume. The stench of the camps will always stay with me and I try to block it out"

Turgel's life sounds like a history of the war. She was 16 when her hometown of Krakow, Poland, was bombed by the Nazi Luftwaffe on Sept. 1, 1939, the first day of the war. She had relatives in Chicago but the family was too late in acting on their plan to move there, and Poland was swiftly sealed by the Germans.

In Krakow's Jewish ghetto, she lost two brothers fighting the Nazis. She then was sent to Plaszow concentration camp where she survived for two-and-a-half years until she was marched to Auschwitz. She survived testing by the infamous Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele.


After two months, as the Red Army advanced towards Auschwitz, she was sent on a "death march,” first to Buchenwald concentration camp and then to Belsen, where she shared a barracks with the dying Dutch teenager Anne Frank.

When Belsen was liberated by the British, she showed a handsome young army officer, Norman Turgel, around the makeshift hospital where she worked. Within six months they were married.

Every story of survival at Auschwitz is extraordinary but hers is perhaps unique.

“I wear a lot of perfume,” she whispers. "The stench of the camps will always stay with me and I try to block it out.” It’s not the only physical reaction she has to her ordeal. Her 17-year-old sister Miriam used to sleep with her, on her left side. Miriam was shot by the Germans for smuggling food into Plaszov. She says she still feels a constant chill along her left arm.

The ghosts of the camp and her family — she lost seven siblings and her father — still haunt her. As we talk, tears come to her eyes, but she doesn’t let them fall.

“To cry in Auschwitz could have you shot," she said. "We had to be strong, to block out everything.”

The killing of four Jews in Paris by Islamist radicals earlier this month sent a shiver through Turgel. It reinforced the message she has tried to teach in the schools she visits regularly, that the hatred of Jews is not consigned to history and is instead kept alive and must be fought against.

She has been back to Auschwitz twice with her grandsons, passing on her memories to new generations and on Tuesday, at home in London, she will be watching the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.

Turgel is determined to speak today, to try to ensure that Jews never again face the same threats.

“Those people were real. They were mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts, doctors and teachers, poets, wonderful people. Composers. And now they scream in silence," she says. “My story is only one story, but it is the story six million others cannot tell. I was, and always shall be, the witness to ... mass murder."

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[Ray Allan]

*World's smallest violin playing*

[Erik T. White]

Originally Posted by Ray Allan

*World's smallest violin playing*

The kike should have done the world a favor:



Since it didn't, cue the violin:



I wonder where ze eevviill tatooz are on its arm????

I guess this is what dear lil' Anny looked like, in hiding, to keep her jewishness hidden from the eevviill nazzeez:






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Erik

[Erik T. White]

This poor fellow is really upset:



Oh, the poor jews.





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Erik

[spoon!]

Was she the one who gave the little kike whore the magic ballpoint pens from the future?!?

[M. Delataire]

"...survived three concentration camps and a gas chamber..."

That certainly is quite a bit of lucid dreaming going on in her imagination. Perhaps this is the result of watching isreali porn?

[brutus]

Ann Frank is nothing more than a myth. She never existed. Complete B.S. Just like the fake holocaust, a made-up story used to evoke sympathy with the aim of extracting money from gullible rubes who are suckers for the kike's tall tales.

[T.Garrett]

Originally Posted by M. Delataire

"...survived three concentration camps and a gas chamber..."

That certainly is quite a bit of lucid dreaming going on in her imagination. Perhaps this is the result of watching isreali porn?

Dr. Mengele did experiments on her too ...

[Erik T. White]

Originally Posted by brutus

Ann Frank is nothing more than a myth. She never existed. Complete B.S. Just like the fake holocaust, a made-up story used to evoke sympathy with the aim of extracting money from gullible rubes who are suckers for the kike's tall tales.

Nice that you brought that up. I always wondered if Anne Frank, as she is portrayed, actually existed. And I still wonder.

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Erik