Prisoner Number A26188: Henia Bryer
PBS: Monday 27 January at 7.15pm

When the German army invaded Poland in September 1939, Henia Bryer’s comfortable middle class childhood came to a crashing end.

By 1941 they were forced into a ghetto, before they were moved to a series of concentration camps in 1944, first Majdanek before being moved on to Plazow, Auschwitz and finally to Bergen Belsen, where she was greeted by a mountain of human bodies.

Somehow she survived, with her mother, and rebulit her life after the war, settling in South Africa. Now in her 80s, she feels it is time to remind the world of the horrors of that time and what lessons they might have for us today. This moving and very human story is a terrible time in history and a story for our times.