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- Birth nameGena Goldfinger
- Gena Turgel was born on February 1, 1923 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. She was married to Norman Turgel. She died on June 7, 2018 in the UK.
- SpouseNorman Turgel(October 7, 1945 - 1995) (his death, 3 children)
- She was the youngest child of nine children to a Polish Jewish family in Krakow, Poland.
- She survived the Holocaust in Poland during World War II. She was interred at Plaszow Labour Camp outside Krakow; Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland; Wloclawek (Leslau in German); Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen in Germany.
- She married British army liberator, Norman Turgel, six months after her liberation from the camps.
- She lives in London, England with her three children and eight grandchildren. She also have three great-grandchildren.
- She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Honours List for her services to the Holocaust Foundation.
- You could not distinguish if they were men or women - bones, skeletons, children's bodies. You can't possibly imagine the state of the place, it was horrendous.
- "We did not know she was special, but she was a lovely girl. I can still see her lying there with her face, which was so red as she had a breakout. And then she died." ( On Anne Frank)
- "When I arrived in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, I saw heaps of bodies lying around. Not just one or two, but mountains as high as a tree in the garden.
- When we arrived in Belsen, I saw those skeletons and I said to myself 'I am not going to die like that'.
- "Her bed was around the corner from me. She was delirious, terrible, burning up. I gave her cold water to wash her down. ( On Anne Frank)
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