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Mon Jan 27, 2014, 02:50 AM Jan 2014

Holocaust survivor describes life in Nazi concentration camps

(8 minute video at link)

When Meta Doran read last year that a rail car of the type used to take prisoners to Nazi concentration camps during World War II was going to be exhibited in Las Vegas, she was moved.

“It was the first time ever that I have seen pictures of that since I was in the United States,” Doran says. “For the first time, it was a true sign of the problems we went through.”

Doran wasn’t able to visit the rail car exhibition, but she didn’t have to. As a teenager, Doran, now 87, survived trips in three such cars while being taken to Nazi concentration camps.

“They packed about 120 of us into those cars,” Doran says. “When they opened it up, 20 or 30 had died, and it was normally (for trips) of two-and-a-half or three days, but that was too bad. They couldn’t care less. They didn’t give us any fresh water, nothing to eat.”

more: http://www.reviewjournal.com/life/holocaust-survivor-describes-life-nazi-concentration-camps

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