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Born in Auschwitz and hidden in a footstool: “I suckled fear along with my mother’s milk”

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In an old photo, Stefania Wernik and her mother Anna Piekarz look at the camp number 79414, which her mother wore until the end of her life.

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Agnieszka Bugała - published on 02/03/22
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Somehow, mother and baby survived the horrors of the notorious Nazi death camp.

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