When the train ground to a halt at Auschwitz concentration camp51 years ago, Helen Herskovich remembers hearing Dr. Josef Mengeleholler: "Twins, step out."
Helen and her identical twin, Pearl, stepped forward from thecattle car and were led in one direction while their father, sister,brother-in-law and their three children were led another - to thecrematory.
"We never saw our family again," said the 74-year-old survivor.
A few hours later, the sisters learned that it was theirfamily's ashes, and the ashes of other Jews, falling from the smokestacks.
"We were just shocked, we didn't believe it. How could you?"
Helen told this story to …
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