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Lucille after liberation:
Bergen-Belsen, 1945. |
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Because
she could speak and read English, French, and German,
Lucille was asked by the British to act as an
interpreter. At one of the camps
in which she had been interned (Neuengamme-Sasel),
Lucille had worked for the Nazis as a secretary handling
paperwork. Between beatings by the camp commandant, she
had managed to memorize the names and addresses of 42
S.S. guards. With Lucille's assistance, the British
arrested and imprisoned all of them.
After receiving death threats, probably
from S.S. family members, Lucille managed to leave
Germany for New York, where she arrived in early 1946.
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