I was a teenager at Auschwitz
Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus was 14 when she was taken to a Nazi concentration camp. She worked in the children鈥檚 hut and became known as the 鈥榣ibrarian of Auschwitz鈥�.
Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus is now in her nineties, but she was only 14 when she was taken to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland. She worked in the children鈥檚 hut and she鈥檚 now known as the 鈥榣ibrarian of Auschwitz鈥�. Dita remembers being desperately hungry and cold, but along with her mother she survived her time there. After coming face to face with SS doctor Josef Mengele they were sent to Bergen-Belsen, another concentration camp, where she saw many people starving to death. Eventually the British army liberated the camp and they were freed, but Dita鈥檚 trials were not over. She tells Emily Webb her remarkable story. Dita has written a book about her experience called 鈥楢 Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz鈥�.
This programme was first broadcast in January 2020.
Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: June Christie
Photo: Dita Kraus
Credit: Courtesy of Dita Kraus
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