Trude Levi
Auschwitz & Buchenwald Labour Camp Survivor

Trude Levi grew up in Hungary, aged 20 she was deported to Auschwitz with her parents. Her mother was gassed on arrival, she never saw her father again. "My worse memory of the camp is on arrival being stripped naked and having all my hair shaved off by a man. I was given one item of clothing to wear. I started to menstruate. It was the last menstruation I had for many years. Since I had no underwear and nowhere to wash, it was for me one of the most humiliating experiences to walk around, blood-stained and filthy dirty," says Trude.

Trude was among 15,000 people driven on the 'Death March' to Leipzig. "I collapsed, the SS beat me, but I couldn't get up. They said I wasn't worth a bullet so they marched on and left me. That was my liberation."

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