The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz - Magda Hellinger tealight Michael Gawenda

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The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz - Magda Hellinger tealight Michael GawendaThe extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. In March 1942, twenty five year old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young Slovakian women were deported to Poland on the second transportation of Jewish people sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The women were told