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Judith and her sister escaped during a forced march out of Stutthof in the winter of 1944. They later escaped to Denmark, posing as christians, where they were liberated in 1945.
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When Judith was 14, in 1943, she and her family were deported to the Stutthof Concentration Camp. When they arrived a female guard walked in front of the prisoners with a whip, saying "No one leaves alive. You're all doomed." They were then taken to be examined, the woman in front of Judith had her teeth ripped out of her mouth. When it was Judith's turn, the guard stuck her hand in her crotch to check for hidden valuables.
Judith was one of three children in a Yiddish speaking Jewish family. She grew up on a farm in the Lithuanian town of Jonova. In 1938, when Judith was 9, her father passed away, and her mother moved them to Kovno, the capital of Lithuania. Her mother became a seamstress and her older brother and sister were already working there. In 1940 the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, and a year later Germany invaded Lithuania.
Although the majority of Jews in Europe were murdered, there were hundreds of thousands of survivors after they were liberated in 1945. They were all different ages and from different backgrounds, but were united together now for life, struggling to survive and not sure if they would ever be able to recover from the atrocities that had occurred in these concentration camps.
The Holocaust was a horrific genocide of the Jews living in Europe at the time. In 1933 the Nazi's, led by Hitler, began invading European countries and taking Jews to concentration camps and forced labor camps. In these camps, Jews were either worked to death, starved, burned alive, shot, or poisoned in gas chambers. The "final solution" was Hitler's goal to eventually wipe out the entire Jewish race. By May 1945, the Nazi's had murdered six million Jews, and there were thousands of others suffering from disease and starvation.
Just one of the thousands of survivors was Judith Beker.