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. Edith Birkin . Edith Birkin . Edith Birkin
"dreadful dreadful smell" "you could smell these people being burnt" "when we are liberated we are going to be dancing, and kissing"
. Edith Birkin . Edith Birkin . Edith Birkin
"I prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed" "and they never appeared again" "it was the very worst time"
. Edith Birkin
"if you were old or ill looking you went the other side"    
 
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Edith Birkin was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1927. In 1941 she entered the Lodz ghetto, Poland. She was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland in 1944. She survived a death march to Flossenberg camp in Germany and was liberated from Belsen in 1945.

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