On January 27, 1945, the French people had not yet realized the full terror of the Holocaust. After the Soviet army finally liberated Auschwitz and the allies advanced on the Western Front, the first survivors began to return to their countries of origin and began the true size of the tragedy to appear. Esther Dzik was one of the survivors who returned to Paris in 1945. She was deported in September 1943 when she was fifteen years old and sent to Auschwitz, where her sister died. She is now 97 years old, tells us about the circumstances in the camp, and her determination to stay and struggle to rebuild her life after her entire family was killed.
