“I am here for my wife,” said Dutch veteran John Franken, 77, who was captured and forced into slave labour in a Japanese coal mine three months before the atomic bomb was dropped Hiroshima. “She was at Auschwitz and got sent to the gas chamber three times. She survived because they kept running out of gas.”
Montreal Gazette, February 10 (?), 2000, discussing a demonstration outside the Austrian embassy by Holocaust “survivors” and other Jews.