Saskia Tepe was born in 1954 and lived in a Displaced Persons’ Camp outside Nurnberg until she was 7.  Saskia describes the bravery of her mother Brigitte in escaping from a train to Auschwitz and her long journey to safety.  Brigitte suffered greatly under the Nazis a Mischling (mixed ancestry) then under the Czechs as a Sudeten German, and finally as a refugee in the DP camp.  Saskia and her mother overcame the trauma of war and its aftermath and gradually rebuilt their lives in Britain.  

Recorded and edited by Sam Mcleod.

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