Jewish Holocaust survivor, Henia Bryer, was born in Kielce, Poland in 1925. She survived the Radom ghetto, Auschwitz I concentration camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Krakau-Plaszow concentration camp, Majdanek concentration camp, and Radom-Armee-Verpflegungslager concentration camp. Henia was liberated from Bergen-Belsen by British armed forces.
In her 1995 testimony, Henia recalls the experiences of women during the Holocaust, who were torn from their families, stripped and shaved, forced into sex slavery, and tormented by female SS guards.
“They selected 100 young women and they were beautiful. Each one of them was prettier than the other. And we looked at them and we couldn’t understand what was going on there. They were well dressed and they seemed to be well fed, and they were beautiful, each one and one. And eventually we found out what was the story with these girls. […] They were working in a German brothel. They used them for the soldiers that came from the Eastern Front. That was their work.”
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