An Emotional Post-Liberation Reaction | Auschwitz Survivor Linda Breder | USC Shoah Foundation
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“We looked at this table, and we couldn’t touch it. We couldn’t. Can you imagine three years being in a concentration camp, deprived of everything, and see a normal house and a normal table?”
Linda Breder was born in Stropkov, Czechoslovakia in 1924. During World War II, Linda survived the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp and the Auschwitz I, Neubrandenburg, Ravensbruck, and Rechlin concentration camps. After enduring a death march from Auschwitz, Linda was liberated by Soviet armed forces at Neubrandenburg.
While imprisoned at Auschwitz, Linda endured forced labor, sorting through the clothing and collecting the belongings of prisoners who had been murdered.
In the 1960s, after a former Auschwitz SS guard was discovered owning a restaurant in Vienna, the Austrian Justice Department contacted Linda to participate as a witness in two war crimes trials.
Linda was interviewed by USC Shoah Foundation in 1996. In this clip from her testimony, Linda recalls a Russian soldier bringing her and other newly-liberated girls to a farmhouse to eat, and describes their emotional response to a tablecloth-clad table and hot soup.
Please view Linda’s full testimony at https://youtu.be/DO5Mzc9f9Oo
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