"What is the worst thing that has happened to you?" -- "Why did Hitler hate the Jews?" -- "What was your life like before the war?" -- "When did you realize that your family was in danger?" -- "How could an entire people get behind Hitler?" -- "Why did you not fight back?" -- "What do you remember from your arrival in Auschwitz?" -- "What did it mean to have your sister with you in the camp?" -- "What was it like to live in the camps?" -- "Were you always hungry?" -- "What languages were spoken in Auschwitz?" -- "What helped you to survive?" -- "Was there solidarity in the camp?" -- "What was it like to be a woman in the camps?" --"What was it like to have your period?" -- "Were you raped?" -- "Were you afraid of death?" -- "How were you dressed?" -- "Did you get ill?" -- "Were there kind SS soldiers?" -- "Did you dream at night?" -- "What was the best?" -- "When did you realize that there was a genocide happening?" -- "How did you picture your life after the war?" -- "What happened to you sister?" -- "How many people from your hometown survived the war?" -- "Were you jubilant when you were liberated?" -- "Why did you choose Sweden?" -- "How were you received in Sweden?" -- "How did you deal with your trauma?" -- "What made you start lecturing?" -- "Do you feel Swedish?" -- "Do you see yourself in today's refugees?" -- "Have you ever been threatened by neo-Nazis?" -- "Do you hate the Germans?" -- "Have you met a perpetrator?" -- "Are you able to forgive?: -- "Have you traveled back to your hometown?" -- "How often do you think about your time in the camps?" -- "How does it feel to grow old?" -- "After everything, do you believe in God?" -- "What is your view of the future?" -- "What can we learn from the Holocaust?" -- "Could it happen again?"
Summary:
Ȟdi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she and her sister were forced into hard labor before being released at the end of the war. After settling in Sweden, Ȟdi devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust. In her 90s, she decided to take the most common questions, and her answers, and turn them into a book so that children all over the world could understand what had happened. This is a deeply human book that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.
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