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- Arek was not yet 16 when he was liberated and had witnessed some of the worst horrors in human history. The only remaining member of Arek’s family was his older sister, Mania, all of the others had been murdered in the Holocaust. Arek later moved to Britain with other children who had survived, where he led a happy life.
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Arek was reunited with Mania two years after the war had ended. Arek did not speak about his experiences until he wrote his book, A Detail of History (1995) at just two lines a day. Until then, he suffered from regular nightmares about his experiences.
Arek Hersh recounts his experience as a prisoner, at the age of only 14, in the notorious death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.When he arrived, at the concentrat...
Arek Hersh recounts his experience as a prisoner, at the age of only 14, in the notorious death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
In this video, Arek and his wife Jean tell the story of Arek's escape from the mass genocide of millions of Jews during World War Two. The story begins with Arek's arrival at Auschwitz from a Jewish ghetto named Lodz and the horrific selection process he witnessed.
As the war approached its conclusion and Germany was surrounded by the Allies, Hersh and the other Jews at Auschwitz were transported across the country. He was eventually liberated at Theresienstadt (Terezin, Czechoslovakia) on 8 May 1945 by the Soviet Army.
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. Arek was born and brought up in Poland, the son of a boot-maker for the army.
Arek and his friend had managed to steal a bag of semolina from Auschwitz, which staved off some of the hunger. Eventually they reached Buchenwald, which had similar appalling conditions to Auschwitz – however, at least there was shelter and small amounts of food.
