In today's Sun newspaper this one's a corker. This woman was born in Mauthausen and was saved from the gas chamber because....wait for it, they had run out of gas the day before. Hah! I never saw that one coming!!!
She is now 75 and very happy and healthy but her mother who gave birth to her in Mauthausen (a death camp) also survived giving the lie to the claim that they tried to kill every jews. they could get their hands on...
And yes of course her mother had met a certain Joseph Mengele. Of course she did dear.
"There are three reasons why we survived, the first is a very chilling one.
"On April 28, 1945, the Germans had run out of gas for the chambers. My birthday is 29.
"If she had arrived two days earlier, presumably my mother would have been sent straight to the gas chambers, as she was noticeably pregnant.
And her poor old mother was so damaged by her terrible treatment where she was sent to Auschwitz and then back west to Mauthausen that she lived to the ripe old age of 96. Boy this holocaust stuff is bad for the health me thinks.
But there's more...
Her mother managed to conceive and give birth to three children whilst in the camps. That must be a world record. AND she claims they were sleeping 20 to a bunk...
I invite all and sundry to find a better holocaust survivor story on this very special day and post it here.