Time in concentration camps (mar 30, 1944 – jan 27, 1945)

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Yvonne died during this time of Typhus in Bergen-Belsen. She remained Simone's major role model.

describing her bravery at all times and especially during the internment in Auschwitz. If death was a relief to her personally due to mental and physical exhaustion, she instilled passion and the will to survive into her daughters.

“I’m often asked what gave me the strength and will to continue the fight. I believe deeply that it was my mother; she has never stopped being present to me, next to me” (Ruth Hottell’s translation).

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