One of the worst places on Earth – the concentration camp Auschwitz. Part I

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Lili Hirsch’s braids Before the Hirsch family of Trgu Mures, Transylvania, was deported to Auschwitz, Mrs Hirsch cut off the braids of her 12-year-olds daughter, Lili, put them in a velvet tallit (prayer shawl) bag, and gave them to a neighbor for safe-keeping. After the war only Mr Hirsch and his son Itzchak returned; Lili and her mother had perished. The braids that were in the tallit bag are the sole remaining mementos of the prewar period.