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Schindler train: 'I didn't talk to a soul. I was traumatised.'

Bronia Snow remembers the journey from Prague as being "an unreal experience".

Her parents had given her a gold pocket watch, golden bracelet, and a set of three silver knives, forks and spoons from her grandmother " so as to not send me out empty-handed".

Back in Prague her father lost his business, they were forced to wear the yellow star of St David and were eventually deported to Terezin, a concentration camp outside the city.

After the war she discovered her family's fate.

"They were gassed on arrival at Auschwitz," she said.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)