Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar recalls witnessing father’s death at Nazi hands

Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar recalls witnessing father's death at Nazi handsSource: Reuters

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00:00 Another afternoon, while my mother and I were again searching the streets for spare bits

00:12 of food, we heard blood-curdling screams coming in the direction of our cramped apartment.

00:23 My mother yanked my little arm and took off running in the direction of the screams.

00:33 She dashed up the stairs of our building, fighting her way through a crowd of people.

00:42 And once we were there on the landing, the crowd was even thicker.

00:49 But through the open door, we could see a body, a body sprawled on the kitchen floor.

01:02 It was my father, in his rabbit-dressed shirt and his schleiches, or suspenders, lying there

01:15 bleeding from a gash on the side of his throat.