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1945: 'It was a miracle to leave Auschwitz'
Czech-born Yehuda Bacon was just 14 years old when he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in December 1943.Yehuda bacon biography of abraham
Six months later his father was killed in the gas chambers. His mother and sister, Hanna, were sent to another camp in Austria where they died two weeks before the war ended.
Sixty years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, he tells the story of his survival to his daughter, BBC On This Day journalist Hanna White.
"I remember the day I left Auschwitz very well - January 18 1945.
The Russians were coming nearer and the Germans were emptying the camp, sending those who could work to other camps.
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Only a couple of thousand prisoners were left and we knew we would be sent away but we didn't know where.
I had been there a whole year so I had good connections with prisoners who had important jobs like distributing clothes.
Those prisoners had been told to get clothes ready for those who were leavi