Temnotou holocaustu k naději - Uchvacující paměti o životní pouti z Berlína do Amsterdamu, koncentračního tábora Bergen-Belsen a ke svobodě – Butter Irene (2021)

When I stepped off the boat that brought me to the United States in 1945, my American relatives urged me to forget everything that had happened to my family – and to me – during the war. They told me never to think about it or speak of it again. I was fifteen, and they were adults, so I listened to them. I remained silent for forty years. But I was not truly free until I began to talk about what happened to me as a child. This is my story. ------------------------ Irene Butter, born Hasenberg, was a happy little girl when fascism first intruded into her life. At first, her family managed to escape by giving up their possessions and home, leaving relatives behind, and moving from Germany to the Netherlands. However, the dark cloud of a monstrous ideology soon caught up with them there as well. Initially, the Hasenberg family was lucky, miraculously escaping transport to a concentration camp several times, but ultimately they met the same fate as thousands of other Jewish families. In the Bergen-Belsen camp, Irene experienced unimaginable horrors, fear, hunger, filth, and humiliation, yet neither she nor her family lost hope. Finally, it seemed that fortune smiled upon the family, and they gained their freedom, but...