'I was 7 when I watched Nazis execute my mother - the Holocaust could happen again'
'I was 7 when I watched Nazis execute my mother - the Holocaust could happen again'
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A Holocaust survivor who watched as her mother was shot dead in front of her by the Nazis is warning this terror "could happen again”. Polish-born Hannah Lewis, aged 87 who lives in north London, saw her family rounded up and forcibly marched to a labour camp in 1943. Hannah and her dad Adam were the only members of her family to survive the genocide of World War Two. Now she is urging future generations to "stay vigilant" as she has been “horrified that it was happening in Britain” with marches seeing antisemitic chants.
Speaking ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday, January 27th which will be marked by King Charles during a visit to Auschwitz, she told The Mirror how she went through such horror, she thought it was a “figment of her own imagination”. It was only when she returned to Poland 36 years later she sadly realised it had not been a nightmare and had been terrifyingly real.
Hannah was just seven when she watched a Nazi death squad execute her mother Haya . Her family had been rounded up by Hitler’s troops from their Polish village and forced to march to Adampol in 1943. Her father used a wheelbarrow to carry her grandfather, as if you stumbled or fell the Germans would shoot you. But after they arrived they shot him anyway for being elderly.
