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Article: My mother tried to get on the train with the body of my baby sister in her arms. But the guard wouldn't let her. He didn't want a corpse on the train. I saw them pulling both ends of the tiny body. Obviously the guard won; IRELAND'S HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS TELL THEIR HARROWING STORIES.(News)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2003
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Byline: DECLAN FAHY
ZOLTAN Zinn-Collis and Suzi Diamond first met as small children when they were forced into crammed cattle trains by the Nazis and sent to the Belsen concentration camp.
They were among the hundreds of thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe who were sent to their deaths as the Germans escalated their genocide in the last six months of World War II.
More than 500,000 Hungarian and Slovak jews were killed in the camp.
And both children, aged no more than five, were on the verge of dying when Belsen was liberated in 1945.
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