Who is Henia Bryer?
The German invasion of Poland in 1939 ended the happy childhood of Henia Bryer. Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day she tells BBC One how she was sent to four concentration camps, but survived them all.
Where did Henia Bryer grow up?
Henia was born into a middle-class Jewish family. The family of six lived well in an apartment in a nice part of the city of Radom, Poland. Henia had two brothers and one sister. She was the second eldest of the four.
Who Stole Pink Rabbit?
Judith Kerr wrote When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit fifty years ago, based on her own journey, so that her own children would know where she came from and the lengths to which her parents went to keep her and her brother safe.
Is Judith Kerr still alive?
May 22, 2019Judith Kerr / Date of death
What nationality is Judith Kerr?
British
German
Judith Kerr/Nationality
Was Schindler a good person?
Oskar Schindler was a great man who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust. The imperfections in his character and the nuances in the historical record only make his story more remarkable.
Is Mog a boy or girl?
Later on came the equally mischievous Mog, who over a seventeen-book series got into frequent scrapes with her family, the Thomases. Kerr’s no-nonsense attitude was evident when the German translators of her books made Mog a male cat, as ‘feminism hadn’t really hit there yet’.
Henia Bryer was born in Poland in 1925, and was educated at a local Jewish day school. In 1941, Henia and her family were moved into the Radom Ghetto. She was later deported to Plaszow from where she was moved to Majdanek, then Auschwitz.
What happened to Henia Bryer?
Seven decades have passed but the moment Henia Bryer came face to face with Angel of Death Josef Mengele is still etched on her mind. She was a freezing teenager, forced to strip naked and parade before him in thick snow.
How did Henia Bryer survive the Holocaust?
The German invasion of Poland in 1939 ended the happy childhood of Henia Bryer. Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day she tells BBC One how she was sent to four concentration camps, but survived them all.
What happened to Bryer’s family after WW2?
At first, Bryer’s family – including an older brother and a younger brother and sister – survived on the gold coins saved by her father, a shoe factory owner who continued working, but was not paid. Much worse was to come. In 1941 they were among the 30,000 people confined to a ghetto, set up in the Jewish area.