Stories from the Holocaust, told firsthand | Richmond Times-Dispatch
What will the world do when these folks can't defend themselves?
Stories from the Holocaust, told firsthand
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Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, a stepsister of Anne Frank, speaks to students at St. Catherine’s School, in Richmond, on Thursday, February 5, 2009. The theater company at the school is producing “And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the Words of Anne Frank.“
By Lisa Crutchfield
Published: February 6, 2009On the day she arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Eva Geiringer Schloss' fate was decided by the coat she was wearing.
Guards sorted new prisoners at the concentration camp into those who faced a life of hard labor and unspeakable horrors, and others -- too old, young or weak -- who went to the gas chambers.
Schloss was captured on her 15th birthday. Were it not for a coat that made her look older, she would have been killed immediately.
Yesterday, Schloss calmly looked out into an audience of high school students at St. Catherine's School in Richmond. "Most of you would not have passed through," she told them.
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