Tony Chuwen
Janowska Concentration Camp Survivor

Tony Chuwen says he survived the Holocaust because of luck and his determination to live just one minute longer than Hitler. "During the time I was in the camp, that was my only wish. Just to see the bastard dead. After that, if they wanted to kill me - let them kill me."

Built as strong as an ox, Tony survived the Janowska concentration camp near Lwow, Poland where 200,000 Jews were shot, his parents amongst them. "The worse thing was when you had to pass the camp commander's house. He use to sit on the veranda with a rifle and take pot shots at anyone he didn't like or if they didn't move quick enough," he says. "You never knew who he was going to hit. It was just like shooting rabbits."

80 members of Tony Chuwen's family were killed in the Holocaust.

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