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Survivors vow to tell WWII horrors even as memories haunt them
In Jerusalem a museum image of a barefoot girl stirred survivors to break silence about Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Ruth Brand recalls family murder and Mengele experiments. others describe death marches, cold, and the burden of living with nightly traumas as the world marks 60 years since liberation.
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Jerusalem
Bracha Ghilai
Shari
Ghilai
Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
Israel
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Ruth Brand
Hungary
Gisela Pearl
Brand
Martha Weiss
Eva
Josef Mengele
Mengele
Uncle Mengele