Magda Baden, who was 14 when she was taken to Auschwitz, shared her harrowing personal account of losing her family and enduring unimaginable hardships during her time in the Nazi concentration camp. At a JFK Jr. Forum event commemorating the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, she emphasized the importance of survivor stories. Baden described the brutal conditions of her forced march and life in the camp, underscoring the need for collective remembrance and the transmission of these narratives to future generations.
"That's the last time I saw my mother, my father, and my sister with the baby," said Baden.
"It's about hearing from somebody who was there, thereby becoming somebody who has heard about it from somebody who was there and can pass on that word down [through] the century," said Risse.
For days, the men, women, and children slept outside with no shelter, no bathrooms, and little food before being ordered into cattle cars, jammed in with hundreds of others in the dark.
Baden recalled being marched several kilometers to a vast expanse of concrete where guards in lookout towers fired on people randomly.
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