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When her children were young they’d sometimes ask her about the scar on her arm. Ella Blumenthal told them it was the result of a car accident. But this wasn’t true. It was what remained of the tattoo that she’d been given as a prisoner at Auschwitz.
In this extract from her remarkable new memoir the 101-year-old holocaust survivor shares her incredible story of survival and resilience – from the Warsaw ghettos to the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, the trauma of losing 23 family members and how through faith and pure chutzpah she walked free to build a new life in South Africa.
"I was born on the 15th of August 1921 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and my very religious parents named me Nechama which means “comfort” in Hebrew.
