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I Spent 12 Years In Nazi Camps
Tears glistened on Emmaly Reed's cheeks as she shared painful
experiences about her past -- experiences so awful school textbooks
don't divulge all the details. But with a quiet resolve, Reed got
through the tears, even sharing a few chuckles with the crowd of 500
who came to hear her personal account of the Holocaust.
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Barely Three Years Old
After 12 years of captivity, Reed, who was incarcerated at age 3
for being Jewish, had plenty of stories to share. The Holocaust began
when Hitler seized control of Germany in 1933 -- the year she was
arrested.
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Speaking To 500 At A church
Reed, 77, now lives in Salina and was in Hays on Thursday evening
to share her story with a large crowd at St. Nicholas of Myra Church.
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Tattooed At Three
The first little girl taken, and one of the first prisoners at
Dachau Concentration Camp, No. 4 was tattooed on her wrist. The brand
was later removed from her skin by a doctor.
"He said, 'Come to my office, and I'll take care of it. You don't have
to suffer anymore,' " she said.
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Evil Nazi Doctors
She endured torture of various degrees and often was taken to a
laboratory where experiments intended to kill were performed on
her.
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Nazis Executed Each Other
She remembers a kind German soldier, who was tortured and
killed in front of everyone for showing sympathy to children.
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She Slept Inside The Latrine
She told 7 year-olds stories that made them cry. Stories about
eating grass and mud to stay alive. When the Nazis were looking to gas
children she climb into the toilets, and sleep in the feces!!
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She Actually Met Hitler
Emmaly said, “Hitler was not human, he killed a little boy next to
me in the camp!" “Those are pictures you cannot forget,”
she said. “I still have nightmares where I wake up screaming.”
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Hung By A Chain
Her last day in the camp, she was in a coma, nailed to the wall,
hanging with a chain around her neck. Everyone around her was dead.
"My last day, I was . I was supposed to be dead, but I wasn't," she
said. "I was just in a coma."
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She Was Liberated By The French
The few survivors at Dachau were liberated by French soldiers, who
were led to the camp by her mother. Upon her liberation, she was
rushed to a military hospital in France and remained in a coma for
months.
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The French Nurses Remember The Brave Girl
She spent nine months in a coma at a French hospital. At the time,
she was 15 years old and weighed 32 pounds.
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