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Guta Goldstein
 
Photo by Tamara Yuill Proctor

Guta Goldstein

Tamara Yuill Proctor —

On 10 September, Hagley College History and other Year 10-13 students were privileged to listen to Guta Goldstein share her incredible story of Holocaust survival.

The students listened intently to Guta as she shared her memories of living in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. She told about the extreme lengths her father took to keep them warm and her aunt's determination to do all she could to keep her niece, Guta, safe. Both her father and sister died in the Ghetto. In 1944 she was deported with others to Auschwitz, transferred to Bergen-Belson and then to Meltheurer. Students were genuinly struck by her story and the anecdotes she shared with them, especially the triumph of the human spirit in such terrible times. This is the second visit by Guta to Hagley College and she generously donated two signed copies of her memoir, "Towards a Future: A Memoir", which is available in the school library.