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  • Auschwitz Inmate Who Survived When Gas Ran Out Turns 101

    02/25/2015 8:48:39 AM PST · by WhiskeyX · 23 replies
    Mediafax ^ | 10. 12. 14. - 14:00 | Mediafax
    A woman who survived a Nazi gas chamber because it ran out of gas is preparing to celebrate her 101st birthday. Klara Marcus, 100, from the town of Sighetu Marmatiej in the northern Romanian county of Maramures was captured in 1944 and sent to the infamous Nazi death camp Auschwitz in southern Poland. Then aged 30, she was forced to strip naked along with hundreds of other women and marched into the gas chamber. She said: "I was chosen towards the end of the day with a large group of other women and we were made ready for the gas...