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NEVER

Olga Berkovitz

“Selection”
When we arrived at Auschwitz the Nazis
selected the fit from the unfit.
I tried to hold on to my dear mother.
At that moment Mengele kicked me on
the face and my teeth fell out.
That was the last time I saw my dear mother.

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They treated us like animals,
But we never became animals.
We helped each other,
they were animals but we never lost
our humanity.
We selected ourself for true life!

In honor of Yom HaShoah

(Holocaust Remembrance Day)

on April 11, a roundup of

Holocaust-themed books.

LYNNE KONSTANTIN ARTS & LIFE EDITOR

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April 5 • 2018

jn

FORGET

• In a remarkably moving and thought-provoking portrait of
the Holocaust, Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the
Holocaust (Cassell Illustrated) captures the experience of surviving
one of the darkest moments in human history. Over the course of
fi ve years, the celebrated London-based portrait photographer Harry
Borden (Elton John, Paul McCartney and Margaret Thatcher are
among his subjects) traveled the world photographing survivors;
the book brings together more than 200 powerful portraits —
accompanied by handwritten notes by each survivor, which attest to
the incredible resilience of the human spirit. At the end of the book,
a section provides additional information on each subject, detailing
how and what they survived.