On May 8, 1945, as Maria Scheffer lay awake in her bed in Theresienstadt concentration camp, the sound of Russian singing began floating through the midnight air. Russian liberators were marching through the ghetto, their songs of freedom filling the cold Czechoslovakian streets. Nearly 70 years later, this memory still brings her close to tears. It was a moment that unless you live through it, you dont know. Ms Scheffers own story of survival is a mixture of unspeakable cruelty, immense tragedy and a lot of miracles in between, which just so happened to pull us through.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:25:01 +0000