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The “SAUNA” - Disinfection
The testimony of Yaffa
Munch, born in Hungary and deported to Auschwitz with her family in
1944, at the age of 14.
They took us and gathered
us outside a large bath house. They told us to remove all our clothing
and to pile them up neatly and fold them…. There was a whole lecture
and we listened nicely and folded the clothing. And I had to take off
my clothing there. Suddenly they took us and shaved off all of our
hair. My sister is a beautiful girl, with long dark hair.
And suddenly I begin to shout and call out her name: Esther,
Esther – and she says “I'm standing beside you.” I didn't recognize
her because they had shaved off all her hair.
Yaffa Munch, Yad Vashem
Archive, VD 17.
This Testimony appears in “Eclipse of Humanity” Yad Vashem’s
multimedia program on the Holocaust. For more information,
click here. |
