BBC: Helmut Sonneberg: A spellbinder's story of survival, no longer kept secret.
This begins as a conversation with 90-year old sports fan Helmut "Sonny" Sonneberg.
"Sonny" has had many interesting and horrifying experiences in his life and he shares
them with us.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/60919445
big snip
[In February 1945, with the Allies advancing, Sonny was deported along with his mother to Theresienstadt, in what is now the Czech Republic. His stepfather could do no more. He himself had been forced to take up arms.
Theresienstadt was primarily a transit camp for Jews sent to their deaths further east.
"There were about 55,000 people in a space designed for 4,000," Sonny says.
"There was barley soup in the morning, at noon and in the evening. That was all we got to eat. Sometimes it was thick, sometimes thin, salty or sweet. There was one special ration every five days: 500g bread, 50g sugar, 50g butter. If I got that at 11, it was eaten by 12. So my mother gave me her ration too. (note: 454 grams equals one pound)
"People were starving to death but it was not an extermination camp. When we were liberated by the Red Army - in late May or early June, it was warm - trains arrived from Auschwitz. They were like cattle cars, all the doors open, with people in there. They were just skin and bones. Nothing more.]
This is yet another of many "This is what Nazis/Fascists do yet we can and do
survive." stories that I'm familiar with. Let's remember, never forget and celebrate
with "Sonny".
There's much more text and photos at the link. I have edited the text to meet our
4-paragraph rule.
