“Generations to come should never, never experience what I have experienced.” In 2014 Holocaust survivor, Gena Turgel spoke to Forces News about her shocking experiences as a prisoner. Ms Turgel passed away in 2018 but her story will live on. | Forces News

She stood naked in a sealed concrete room, waiting for the gas to fall. In the winter of 1944 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gena Turgel, a young Polish woman who had lost most of her family in the Krakow ghetto, was pushed inside with hundreds of others. The doors closed. Minutes passed. The pipes stayed silent. A mechanical failure kept the Zyklon B from flowing, and when the guards reopened the doors, Gena walked out alive. She was sent on to Bergen-Belsen, where death spread faster than hope. There,