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    Hungarian Auschwitz survivor says world has not learned lesson

    Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®

    Posted on January 17, 2025

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    Last updated: January 27, 2026

    Agnes Darvas, a 92-year-old Auschwitz survivor from Hungary, recounts her traumatic experiences during the Holocaust, emphasizing the importance of remembering history to prevent future atrocities.
    A Hungarian Auschwitz survivor shares her harrowing story - Global Banking & Finance Review
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    Quick Summary

    Auschwitz survivor Agnes Darvas recounts her escape from death and reflects on the world's failure to learn from the Holocaust's horrors.

    Hungarian Auschwitz Survivor Reflects on Unlearned Lessons

    By Krisztina Fenyo and Krisztina Than

    BUDAPEST (Reuters) - When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped being sent straight to the gas chambers with other children largely because her coat had been stolen in the ghetto and her mother had cut off her braids for fear of lice.

    The coat borrowed from her mother and makeshift hairstyle made her look older to Joseph Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death" who chose who was fit for camp labour and who was to be killed, Darvas, now 92, told Reuters.

    "During the selection, Mengele was misled by my short-cropped hair and the coat, even though I was only 12," she said at her home in downtown Budapest ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Jan. 27.

    She and her mother were sent to the Plaszow camp to work in a quarry with a pickaxe as heavy as she was and then moved on to another concentration camp, Mauthausen. By the time they reached the Bergen-Belsen extermination camp, she could no longer walk, only crawl, due to typhoid and cholera caught from filthy water.

    In the days before that camp was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945, there was no water at all. She described it as the "hell of all hells".

    "The Brits came in ...they used loudspeakers from cars saying you are free now, and we will take you out from this hell," she said. "There were piles of dead bodies around."

    More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, perished at Auschwitz, the death camp set up by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland to carry out Hitler's "Final Solution" to exterminate European Jews.

    Half a million Hungarian Jews were murdered there and in other Nazi extermination camps in 1944, including all of Darvas's extended family.

    "We had a fairly large family, 72 of us close relatives, cousins, aunties," Darvas said, going through photos of her happy and, she says, spoilt childhood in the family villa.

    The world still has not learnt the lessons of the horrors suffered by so many people, she said.

    "People believe that if they commemorate, then these things would not happen. Well, this happens every day, perhaps not with Jews but some other ethnicities ... there has never been so much cruelty in the world."

    (Writing by Krisztina Than; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

    Key Takeaways

    • •Agnes Darvas survived Auschwitz due to a stolen coat and short hair.
    • •She was misidentified as older by Joseph Mengele.
    • •Darvas and her mother endured multiple concentration camps.
    • •She believes the world hasn't learned from the Holocaust.
    • •Half a million Hungarian Jews were murdered in 1944.

    Frequently Asked Questions about Hungarian Auschwitz survivor says world has not learned lesson

    1What is the main topic?

    The article discusses Auschwitz survivor Agnes Darvas's experiences and her views on the world's failure to learn from the Holocaust.

    2Who is Agnes Darvas?

    Agnes Darvas is a Hungarian Auschwitz survivor who shares her story of survival and the ongoing relevance of Holocaust lessons.

    3What does Agnes Darvas believe about the world today?

    She believes that the world has not learned from the Holocaust, as cruelty and persecution continue globally.

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