Helena Citrónová - Forbidden Love Affair at Auschwitz Between a Slovak Jew & Sadistic Nazi Guard
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2023
- Helena Citrónová, one of 4 children of Jewish parents, was born on the 26 August 1922 in Humenné, then part of Czechoslovakia. Her father was a cantor and because Helena liked not only to sing but also dance, her older brother joked that one day he would take her to Prague to exercise her talent. In 1934, Helena’s sister Róžika together with her husband emigrated to Palestine. However, because he could not find work there, in 1939 the two decided to return to Czechoslovakia together with their daughter though the Jews in Palestine had warned them by saying: "What? Are you crazy?! There's a war brewing.” By the time the family realized their mistake, it was too late.
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Moving back to Czechoslavakia in 1939...That's got to be in the top 10 of worst decisions ever.
why ?
@@marvin2678start if the 2nd world war i guess
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I´d say TOP 1, ¡hahahaha!
better than settling in Palestine
Which ultimately killed her sisters two babies. Ohhh I couldn’t imagine the horror. I just would have went with them to be in heaven with them. The instinct to survive in this horrendous world is INSANE. It can cause unimaginable sorrow although.
He saved her life, and, no doubt, in the end, she felt obligated to repay the debt. How she actually felt about him in later life is anyone's guess...likely she had strongly mixed feelings.
She did nothing to repay that so called according to you a 'debt'. She only told the truth whenever being asked to. Being genuine, truthful and kind has a kind of power all its own.
I thought the same thing! That she wanted to return the favor..
Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome
@SynnJynn
That’s not what Stockholm Syndrome is.
i dont think she ever loved the man who risked his life so many times for her. that admission of love is only there to alleviate the impression of ingratitude
Even in the worst place on earth at the time, she still had a great smile
There's no denying that the Woman was damn attractive!!
A very beautiful smile...
She was not starving, no wonder she could smile...
Because a German loved her . And that was privilege in so many ways
She looked majestic ❤
It is so hard to know what to feel about this story. Helena obviously awakened some sense of decency in this young man. He obviously impacted her as well, or she wouldn't have turned up at his trial. I guess the real story is how war degrades all aspects of humanity, even love. But, something remained. Hopefully they both carried that good part with them to their last days?
Very WELL PUT.
He killed some young guys in the camp. He also beat a girl so bad she still had pain until her last days. He was a horrible person.
I love your comment! Well said!!!
Life is so complicated. I would be happy if a bad person never did a good deed and a good person - a bad one. But sometimes is sooo not black and white. Still I think he should not have been acquitted at the trial.
Let's keep in mind many instances Germans were frced to do this it wasn't all them being evil its not that black and white
The fact that he risked his life to save her makes me understand that it wasn't selfishness, but love. He was certainly very much in love with her, and I think that in a normal world and without indoctrination he would have been a good person.
I think she loved him too, I don't want to romanticize the story, but she herself said she loved him in interviews. But once the war was over it wouldn't have been possible for them to get married (can you imagine their wedding? and family dinners?) So she did the right thing.
he saved her life ,he did much more than she did for him , he was an ss if the other ss members would findout him he could had risk all his family in germany .
@@aqifkopertoni6217 I think some ss men around him knew this, they just played along. The relationship wasn't that secret, even the other prisoners close to her knew it as you can see from the testimonies
Indoctrination is like poison to kids' mind. Just imagine you get kids hooked on drug. Indoctrination does the same to them. It's happening in the US now. But parents still have the chance to save their kids from Marxist propagandists. Regrettably, many families avoid "contrversial" topics at home, and many immigrant families couldn't communicate due to language barrier between parents and kids growing up speaking English. It's a national tragedy. But we shall overcome, or die doing so.
I wish this was mentioned in the video, but Helena‘s sister was tricked into thinking that her children were alive. She did not know that they were going into the gas chambers. If she had known that they were gas chambers, she would’ve died with them. For months, Helena told her sister that her children were alive once her sister found out that they weren’t, she was completely devastated.
Maybe, maybe not. One thing is certain tho, Helena had nothing to do with her sister's children's death. She had zero power to prevent it. If the sister had to blame anyone, it should have been herself. Because her stupid decision to return from Jerusalem is THE crucial bad choice that ended in fatality.
This deserves a mention too. Auschwitz : 4 Million Jews were allegedly gassed, incinerated and bones buried, if this was over 4 years, 2739 were exterminated daily. If this happened over the "Final Solution" years 1943-45 ,then 5.400 were exterminated daily. I have a bridge for sale if you are interested.
neither was Franz really responsible. Children had very little chance of living in Auschwitz, and what could he say, that they had been misplaced from his unit?@@chickenlover657
@@chickenlover657how exactly ? am i mssing somethign ?
@@marvin2678 Huh? What part is not clear to you? Sounds like you didn't watch the video or weren't paying attention.
Humans are made to love each other, nor hate neither kill... Let us keep this in our minds and hearts for ever...
tell this to the jews they are killing a lot without mercy
Humans are evolutionary much better equipped for fight than for a cooperation. Love is mostly just a romantic concept. Sorry.
Yes dear but each has a different nature and that is the quintessential truth about the human race humanity is about being human human is about being authentic fait correct etc
Being human is complicated. We are a smart animals that was not made, but evolve. We're not perfect, because we never meant to be perfect
She was very beautiful, and he was a handsome guy. Sad the circumstances….
Indeed. He had the feelings inside to be a decent person, but it was tainted by his involvement with the SS. War destroys a lot of goodness in people and brings out the worst. Thankfully she and her sister survived.
So? Good looking people don't fall for other good looking people for their looks
It’s disgusting to worship beauty as the standard for achieving happiness in a relationship.
Beauty is important @@nangel270
@@nangel270well ugly people are gross. We don’t have to accept the negligence. They don’t take care of themselves so there’s nothing to be attracted to. They bring it upon their lazy selves and we have every right to reject them. Go to dentist. Eat healthy. Good hygiene and grooming. Smell good. Get an education. Make money. Have something attractive. It’s attainable.
If you ask me, Franz Wunsch was possibly the only war criminal of the Second World War to actually be remorseful of his actions even if it was due to his relationship with Helena.
A lot of Japanese generals were ashamed at their actions too
Another nazi was Karl Plagge
Just remember that a leopard can't change his spots
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He was not remorseful tho. He said in a letter to her he wished that Germany would have won lol
If anyone wants to know more I highly recommend a documentary called “Love It Was Not”. It has interviews with almost everyone who was there. It’s beautiful too, the way they set up the story.
Beautiful and informative, yes, but with a misleading title. many believe it was mutual.
Thank you! I'm gonna check it out.
I've seen the documentary several times and agree with what you said overall. However, the title suggests a certain prejudice on the filmmaker's part, which she eventually conceded. But definitely moving and eye-opening.
By the way, the first shorter documentary by the same filmmaker, "The Most Beautiful Woman," is also worth seeing. And an upcoming documentary called "999" casts light on the first Jewish girls and young women brought to Auschwitz, of which Helena was one.
What a wonderful and nuanced story, which I have never heard before. Thank you so much for your recording of it.
He saved her life first... after the war she saved his life:
Such a beautiful and accurate way of putting it.
Do u know the story between Mahmur Darwich and Rita ??
Mahmud was Palestinian poet, Rita was a Jewish girl of Israel...
I would have rather died with my children than stay alive without them
Easy to say that in the comfort that you will never have to make that choice
@@j0nnyism It's actually an easier decision to make in that situation
Clearly! Me too, I think I'd kill myself. Having my children taken away to die on their own... I couldn't bear it. The worst part of it is letting them alone without me to confort them: this is even worst than death. I think that the people questioning the validity of this claim aren't parents. If they were, they would know.
Absolutely. 😢
What a beautiful woman Helena was.
Stunning
No matter how much I watch about world war II I will never know everything
This was a wonderful story, it was a story about human beings
None of us will, and maybe that’s a good thing. It is hard to realize just how low humanity can fall.
Huge appreciation for the narrator who researched the correct pronunciation of all Slovak names a cities and try to mimic it as closely as he could ❤
Usually, the pronunciation is so bad that I cannot even guess what it is supposed to be.
But what do you think would have happened to her if she had rejected his advances? She saved her life, and more likely the lives of many others.
Exactly, there's no "no".
Its crazy she looked so gorgeous in the picture where she smiled wearing the "pijama" in front of Baracks, still good fed.
He definitely saved her life and this story was very beautiful. I am German and I always wondered whether something like this happened
This story shows love is stronger than hate. I missed such a story.
Most were over weight, stop feeling bad. You've been beaten down for to many years. Chin up.
A Romeo and Juliet story
@@Chris-wyt Not most... Maybe some... You cant say they were better fed than our soldiers who also didnt had anything. Even the population of Germany starved. Its illogical that all of them were fed like her
@@Chris-wyt Churchill starved 8 million Indians and took their food and grains to ENgland to feed the UK population during ww2. Indians who grew the grains and farmed them died of starvation. The Bengal famine artificially caused by churchill did it.
Stop with white washing.
@@Chris-wyt but yes. It's 80 years ago and the Israelis still use the Holocaust as an excuse for Genocide. We Germans are paying and paying and paying for everyone. We definitely need to chin up.
What a story!!! THIS is one of the best stories to come along in a long time! Keep it up! I subscribed! Good job.
RIP
Helena Citrónová
(1922-2007)
Maybe in another time or different situation they may have truly loved each other and had a chance
@@foreverlovesophiewhy do u care?
oh shut up 😂
She survived. Thats all that matters
I’m sure the nazi guards felt the same way when their only other option was the eastern front
@@j0nnyismI would have went to the eastern front some things isn’t worth being a part of .
All that matters is being humane
Esp when the world has lost its mind
The end does not justify the means
Ever
Theirs a documentary on this on Tubi and it’s one of the most extraordinary and strange stories I’ve ever heard from the war or anytime actually, and her sister held it against her over her “saving” her but not her daughter,just an unimaginable position to be in,absolutely heartbreaking
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I think saving her sister was selfish. She had to spend the rest of her life in agony and grief over losing her two children including an infant.
@@sassycat6487 Nothing selfish about it and I have no clue how such silly idea could come into your mind. If anyone was selfish it was her sister who blamed her for not saving her children, even tho she obviously couldn't have done anything about it. The death of any child is of course the most tragic thing, but she had no say in the matter. It was not her fault in any way.
Thanks...I love Tubi....will look it up,
@@chickenlover657💯💯 agreed! I lived with an older Israeli lady for a while in my student days and she told me of the heartbreaking story of her Mother whose first husband and a son were murdered in those Nazi extermination camps.
She said even though her Mother immigrated to Israel met and married another loving man, the father of this lady and her brother the Mother never got over her grief and depression over the loss of her first family😭
She told me her mother was almost never happy her whole life that she could remember and later died still in her grief😢
Not hard to understand considering the unimaginable trauma of living through such utterly senseless suffering 😭🙏💙🙏✝️✝️✝️
Still a better love story than "Twilight".
To be fair, that’s a mighty low bar set there😂 but yes, you’re correct
still a better love story than mine
💀💀💀
This made me sad in a way. There are good in people just as there are bad people. They both lived a long life. How hard it must have been, however they both made the best of it and ended up with their own families.❤
RIP to both ❤🙏🇺🇸
Thank you for this video, I'm Slovak but I have never heard about Helena, very strong story
I’m sure there are a lot more stories like this. Some true love stories, others women and men just trying to survive.
That was a very sweet story. Thank you for posting it.
A lot of bad things happens in wars and its far too easy for us sitting in the comfort of our own homes to judge.
yp but still no excuse
As what people say; we will never know unless we are in the same situation.
Absolutely unusual story. Only love can break the walls even in such a terrible place ❤ ❤ ❤
This story would make a really powerful movie
The documentary 'love it was not' was excellent.
Helena did was she had to do to survive.
Im quite sure the love was one sided.
Years later when Franz tried to contact her she ignored him and during a trial she did admit he was kind to her but also the fact he tortured and hurt other jews so i would only take this with a grain of salt.
Everything about this story is so incredibly tragic.
Love works. Even when the world is at its cruelest. He did bad things, and had to live with it. Maybe this enough punishment. Forgive him, Lord. Amen.
💯💯 True!!!
Not for nothing does The Bible say Love is the greatest of the three Theological Virtues. (1 Corinthians 13:13)
And"that it is as strong as death!" (Song of Solomon 8:6)
May his soul through the MERCY of GOD rest in PEACE 🌹🌹🌹🙏💙🙏✝️
No ! Living with the memory of your crimes is not enough! Our God forgives but we are required to suffer the consequences of our crimes.
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Disgusting part of our history. This needs to be taught in schools. Never forget.
It was taught and history is repeating itself today with the oppressed becoming the oppressors
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Nope, just dirty Muslims being nazis. They were before WW2, during and after. Just Islam.
That’s the sad part they don’t teach this in schools
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Great and at the same time very sad story!!!👍👍👍
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I think love really touched his heart and changed it for the good
Sounds like in the end, they both saved each other’s lives?
Such a touching story🥲❤️I am from Slovakia
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I once saw the movie Portier de Nuit with Dick Bogarde playing a Nazi officer in charge of a death camp and falling in love with a prisoner played by Charlotte Rampling. Weird as it seems, it is a love story, kind of. They keep on with their relation after the war and in the end they are murdered by his Nazi pals who see him like a traitor and a danger to their survival.
she ended up caring for him, and testified at his trial. But this was not a love relationship in the way that we understand it. It's not as if she had many options, it was allow this man to love and protect you, or you die. Allow this man to protect those around you and at least you'll be able to do some good. I'm not surprised that she avoided him after the war.
Excellent story!
Thank you!
Fascinating.
Incredible story...
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Thank you so much.
Love the story
L’amour fait des miracles ❤
je suis d'accord avec toi
Very interesting and very moving 😢
God rest her soul.
❤
We, humans, are very strange creatures.
Very interesting
Evil and Goodness literally in one body.
Why would her sister hold her responsible for her daughter's murder?
Thank you for exposing this tragic story..
Many tears to be shed..
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For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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The sister was upset that her children died alone. She felt she should have died with them.
Her sister, like most people, needed someone to blame. Unfairly, as it usually happens. I wonder if she blamed herself too, for making the stupid and fatal decision to come back from Jerusalem. Because in reality, her children died due to that one bad choice.
@@chickenlover657 I was thinking the same thing. Holding herself responsible for coming back to the danger of Nazis may have been too much to bear. Easier to blame her sister.
Amazing story
Strange story in a place of madness.
That is an amazing story in such a brutal place.
It's not brutal place - is brutal nation germans
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Weird watching history slowly repeat itself
This is the second time I have heard this story and I still feel extremely conflicted. It is so rare to see a human side of a Nazi. I’m so interested in their story. I guess this was a real love at first sight. I have so many mixed emotions 🥵
Not condoning Nazis. There were humans among them that just lived in a terrible time. They felt they had no choice. It was kill or be killed. Some people do terrible things for their own or their families survival. You can not walk in their shoes until you lived it. Even Jews betrayed their own kind if it could help them. Like the Frank family, who was betrayed by a Jew to save his own.
It was all about surviving that horrific time in the history of mankind!
Look up Karl Plagge, Oskar Schindler, Kurt Gerstein, Wm Hosenfeld and you'll find humanitarians amongst monsters.
Lindaraterink. What a lot of nonsense!
Lots of Germans didn't participate in genocide.
One of the saddest irl love stories
Well, if life has taught me anything so far, it's this.
You can not control who you fall in love with.
That’s ridiculous
If u fall in love with a dog
U should marry it?
If u fall in love right ur reflection
U should marry it?
@@YeshuaKingMessiah
I'm meant within the bounds of reality.
I for one AM NOT OR HAVE EVER BEEN INTO BESTAPHILIA
Or Narcissism whatsoever.
What I meant I fell in love with a girl who broke my heart but even after all the pain she put me through. Part of me couldn't stop loving her. I never got the chance to marry her though for all intents she was the love of my life
There is a 2018 film 'Where hands touch' which may be of interest.
I heard this story before. I would love to hear his side. I wonder if there is an Interview that was made with him as well but I highly doubt it. They all ran away into hiding.
HIS “side”?? What side is that? He was a Nazi in a death camp!
It's truly something we can never comprehend the power of ❤️
Helena is very Beautiful. She sort of reminds me of Barbara Streisand. I’m glad she survived. 🕊🙏🏾💛
11:57 sheeesh helena was so pretty
this story has been told several times, and if he was so sadistic then why did he save her life and try to save other members of her family??
He wasn’t sadistic. He was just a young adult born in Germany trying to survive the war. That’s what most people don’t realize - most SS guards were just normal people.
She testified to witnessing him commit crimes against other prisoners as stated in the video. That’s the definition of sadistic whether you want it to be or not.
its 2023 does it matter?@@a.grimes4202
he nursed her back to health when she was sick, gave her extra food and clothes, u dont know what your talking about, he saved her life asshole
@@a.grimes4202
Because he was infatuated with her, and saw *her* as human. He didn’t see the other Jews as human.
This should be a movie!
And after everything that my nation had to overcome the world nowadays seems to repeat the same mistakes done in the past- as sad as it is, history repeats itself😢
My great grandpa Joseph Felix was a Jew. He was from Czechoslovakia and he hid the fact. My family didn't find out until the 1980s. His wife Bertha also from Czechoslovakia was Catholic. They immigrated to America in the 1900s and met in this Country.
I know what you mean
As long as she didn't hurt anyone else, she had to do what she had to do to survive.
what do you meanN?
I have the book The Girl In The Striped Dress by Ellie Midwood, that is based on this strange love story.
Why the Hell do u call it love? He used her. And she did not refuse. Disgusting.
Could not refuse
At the trial she says she loved him
Because of her she made the news human to him, but it's sad he and so many others were brainwashed to think they never were.
I cannot believe the world allowed this to happen
Movie "The Night Porter" 1974
What a story!
Probably love is rhe most powerful force in the universe!
Yet so lacking
I think there are different kind of live. But we can divide it into two.: altruistic and the egoistic . Sadly your right most of us are egoistic. My German great great grandfather left may great grandfather in care of a Spanish priest in the Philippine Islands in the late 1800 because the Americans told all German nationals should leave the country or they would be killed or put in jail. The Spanish priest gave my great grandfather his surname so the Americans would not harm him and brought him up just like his true son. One of those positive stories of war ❤️
@@user-ss8jm8lz1pa lot of Germans decided to stay in America after the war. They didn't have to go home to a starving decimated country.
How this world continues to fall into decay from power greed and eventually depravity.
I hope that these despicably foul beings were punished by God not man and the millions of innocent were given heavenly statues for their much suffering.
To the victims RIP.
I think what we look over alot with this, is despite atrocities from the Nazis, there was always a shining light because obviously not all German soldiers or Commanders were inhumane
He wouldn’t have been there if he were not a monster
Are u insane?
@@YeshuaKingMessiahbut not all soldiers are willing to fight especially those who were conscripted.
Canada was a huge storage space, where they could get intimate - the account covers only inconvient places...
It is so horrible to hear these tales… breaks my heart.
Wow. She was beautiful.
Yes, she was. Her temporary lover was not bad looking either but I have no interest in murderers no matter what they might look like.
gripping story;;; very sad
What a sad story. I feel so much sorrow for all victims of the holocaust and for Helena having to survive under such circumstances. And then I feel yet again sadness when I hear that she became a zionist and through that, took away another persons right to exist. Once again in history we are witnessing another genocide. The cycle of trauma and pain continues. I hope one day healing for all.
What an interesting true story. My mother who was born in Canada along with her mother too worked in a warehouse. That was the only paid employment position she could find. Same as one of my aunts from a French Canadian family too.
The bare facts if genocide are still shocking.She did what she had to do humanity has to overcome cruelty.
Such a sad story
So sad😢
Is this the basis of Dirk Bogard's "The Night Porter"?
god bless you both
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They said he hid her when she got sick and nursed her back to health... so you can't also say they were never alone.
These are not starcrossed lovers. People in the commwnts dont romanticize this. This is the story of someone implicit in genocide and the only reason he didn't murder this woman who he believed should be genetically inferior to him, is because she was pretty and had a nice voice. She didn't love him, it's very clear she was only pretending to so she wouldn't starve to death.
I'm so sick of hearing people's certainty that she did't love when she told interviewers many times that she did. If she was only pretending he would have caught on; he wasn't stupid
Stockholm Syndrome
Binding with ur abuser
Any goodness that came out of him was for purely selfish reasons. He fell in love. It’s still couldn’t stop him from being cruel to Jewish men. very sad that he got no punishment at all!
In a book I read he was one of the guards that killed some young guys. He was a very wicked man
But he risked his life helping her. And he saved her sister.
Most people are not black or white, they are grey in many variations. Of course sometimes there are pure evil people.
He was in lust
Where can we see the taped video clip of Wunsch's trial in 1972 and to see Helena's testimony during the trial? or is there a full documentry about Wunsch's life, family, wife daughter, from theirs point of view?
There is no clips of the trial, you could find some newspaper clippings of the trial though.
Laurence Rees did a documentary where this story was first discussed and Helena did an interview with her side of the story. Franz almost agree to be part of the documentary and do an interview but his wife refused him to do so.
You can find interviews he had did off-camera though. The website "Sonderkommando Studien" has a section with Adreas Kilian in the page "Interview Projekt" and "Aufstand." The website even includes some pictures that are not commonly found. The website is in German so just use a translator!
Supposedly, Franz daughter's husband was writing a book about this, but little details about the title, or even authors name, is known
If you watch either A Most Beautiful Woman or Love It was Not, documentaries by Maya Sarfaty about the Helena-Franz story, you'll see footage from the trip.
@@Jennie-mm5zd what's the name of the documentrary produced by Laurence Ress? and where can I find it? and what was Franz-wife's name? I only know his daughter name - Dagmar who passed away, but there were no details about his wife who begged Helena to arrive to Frantz's trial.
@@Jennie-mm5zd what's the name of the documentrary produced by Laurence Ress? and where can I find it? and what was Franz-wife's name? I only know his daughter name - Dagmar who passed away, but there were no details about his wife who begged Helena to arrive to Frantz's trial.
@@sd-fp8zbThe documentary by Rees is called "Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State". You can find clips on UA-cam or it is also on Amazon Prime and Frank's wife name is Thea I believe. It was mentioned in websites I've read that she resembled Helena but I cannot confirm it, there's little info I found of her.
Quite beautiful. Both of them.
they did a movie about it called the night porter
What a love story !
May god take bitter revenge on all who wronged others with cold cruelty and still treat innocent people as dirt.
There is no god and even if there was one, it's a cruel god. Who wants to believe in a god after what happened with the jews?