Ballet Dancer Turns Tables
26. In 1943, while Jewish ballerina Franceska Mann was being made to undress at Auschwitz for delousing, she distracted an SS guard, took his pistol, and shot him dead.
27. Some Holocaust survivors died during their first week of freedom after eating too many chocolates and sweets given to them by soldiers who had liberated them.
28. The gas chambers at Treblinka were so crowded that the victims’ bodies were found standing and kneeling instead of lying down.
29. Kazimierz Piechowski, a Polish prisoner at Auschwitz, joined a bold escape from the camp with three other inmates. Wearing SS uniforms, they drove out through the main gate in the commandant’s car that they had stolen.
30. Only one day before the German government surrendered in 1945, the British Royal Air Force wrongly thought the ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was a warship and sank it. The vessel was carrying 7,000 women, children, and prisoners who were Holocaust survivors.
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