Sunday, April 17, 2005

Survivors of Nazi camps remember

FUERSTENBERG, Germany (AP) Hundreds of survivors of Nazi concentration camps gathered in Germany on Sunday for ceremonies marking the liberation of three of the most notorious camps in the Third Reich's vast system: Ravensbrueck, Bergen-Belsen, and Sachsenhausen.
Ravensbrueck, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Berlin near the town of Fuerstenberg, gained infamy as the Nazis' camp for women prisoners, though some men were also held there.While most simply struggled for their own survival, Pierette Pierrot, a French resistance fighter captured in 1944 had an even greater problem -- she was pregnant when apprehended.Today 88, she remembers she was only able to hide her pregnancy from the SS with her baggy prison clothes and the help of others."There was a lot of friendship between all of the prisoners and a lot of help, and only through that could I keep my child," Pierrot said in French...

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