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Woman reveals she is Jewish child of the Holocaust (Poland)

Bogomila always suspected that her mother had a secret.

"She always looked frightened," Bogomila tells me. "My husband used to say, "Your mother is afraid of her own shadow."

This summer, her 67-year-old mother Barbara finally revealed her secret. She is a Jewish child of the Holocaust. Suddenly, at the age of 37, Bogomila realised she was Jewish, too.

DEATH CAMP SURVIVOR
On Friday, Steve Rosenberg speaks to a survivor of Sobibor, a Nazi extermination camp set up in the Lublin region of occupied Poland

"I was in shock," Bogomila admits. "I didn't sleep at all that night. I couldn't eat for the next two weeks."

I'm sitting with Barbara and Bogomila in the Jewish community centre in Lublin. Before World War II, more than 40,000 Jews lived in this city. The Holocaust changed everything.

"My whole family was killed by the Nazis," Barbara says.

"I survived because a Polish family agreed to hide me. When I was growing up I realised the Polish 'mother' couldn't be my real mother, she was too old. When I was 12 she told me the truth."
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