Author: SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 04/05/2025 | 06:01:57
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Geneviève Perrier, 15, fled her village in northeastern France to escape the advancing German troops like millions of others. By June 1940, France had surrendered and three years later, Esther Senot, 15, was arrested by French police. In 1944, 19-year-old Ginette Kolinka, 19, was sent to the same death camp. Esther Senot was 15 when she was arrested in Paris by French police. She was deported in Sept. 1943 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by cattle train. At the ramp, the Nazis selected those they could use as forced laborers. Senot survived 17 months in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps and made it back to France at age 17. In spring 1945, the Lutetia hotel in Paris became a gathering place for those returning from the concentration camps. Seventeen members of Senot’s family were killed by the Nazis during WWII, including her mother, her father and six siblings. Kolinka, who was 19 when she was deported in April 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, is well known in France for sharing vivid memories of the concentration camps with the younger generation. In June 1945, when she returned to Paris, she weighed only 26 kilos (57 pounds) and was very weak.
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