Holocaust Memorial to Open in Oregon

SARAH LINN

Associated Press

Posted on Sat, Aug. 28, 2004

www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/9521829.htm

PORTLAND, Ore. — For years, Chella Kryszek had nightmares about the dark, crowded cattle cars that shuttled her from concentration camp to concentration camp as a Dutch Jew during the Holocaust.

She remembers stepping out of one such car in 1943 outside the notorious Auschwitz-Berkenau death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Smoke and flames painted the sky and there was “a terrible smell,” Kryszek said.

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