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Lifelong trauma


These photos show Naftali Fürst as a nine year old (left) and at the age of twelve in a group of liberated child prisoners in Buchenwald (front row, standing, 5th from left).

He and his Jewish family survived a forced labour camp in Slovakia, the Auschwitz death camp and Buchenwald concentration camp. He now lives in Israel and is president of the International Buchenwald-Dora Committee and Commandos.