A 101-year-old Auschwitz survivor becomes warrior against hate
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“People who watch the countless interviews Ginette Kolinka gives cannot say that they didn’t know about the extermination of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.”
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“If I had a child, well, I would prefer to strangle them with my own hands than make them go through what I went through”
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“Now, the 101-year-old with an easy and generous smile has become a warrior against antisemitism in France”
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“'Schindler's List' a turning point”
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“In World War II, Nazi-occupied France deported 76,000 Jewish men, women and children, mostly to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Just 2,500 survived.”
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“It took France’s leadership 50 years to officially acknowledge the state's involvement in the Holocaust”
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“Just a few dozen, perhaps fewer than 30, are still alive, according to the Paris-based Union of Auschwitz Deportees”
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“In her memoir, Kolinka says that the first German word she learned was “Schnell!” meaning “Move it!””
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“She described how she and other Jews were crammed aboard windowless animal-transport wagons in Paris and the violence and cruelty... that greeted them at the other end three days later at Auschwitz-Birkenau.”
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“Then, Kolinka rolled up her left sleeve so pupils could see the identification number, 78599, that a camp orderly tattooed on her forearm.”
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“Kolinka was among a couple of hundred who were kept back from the gas chambers and crematoriums to be used instead as forced labour.”
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