> 'Hope to survive': 80 years since end of Nazi camps, Lily Soriano Ahladeff speaks up / 36T39JF
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'Hope to survive': 80 years since end of Nazi camps, Lily Soriano Ahladeff speaks up / 36T39JF
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To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, AFP met with survivors around the world.
Raquel Lily Soriano Ahladeff was born on March 18, 1927, in Rhodes, Greece, then under Italian administration. Deported to Auschwitz (Poland) in July 1944, she was tattooed with the number A24454, and her task was to carry heavy bricks. In January 1945, she was deported to the Kaufering concentration camp in Germany. As she spoke German, her duties included translating for the women, transporting food, and cleaning the clothes of the SS officers stationed in Landsberg. It was during this time that, together with her friend Rosa Hanan and two others, she seized the opportunity to flee, just days before the liberation of Kaufering camp in April 1945, at the age of 18.
As the 80th anniversary approaches, Ahladeff urges people "to always have hope to survive and fight."
She has 3 children, 7 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES