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The woman who died so my sister could live

BIOGRAPHY ONE HUNDRED SATURDAYS: STELLA LEVI AND THE VANISHED WORLD OF JEWISH RHODES by Michael Frank (Souvenir Press £18.99, 224pp)'Give the babies to the old people', someone whispered into the train carriage which took Stella Levi to…

How two mothers saved me from death camp

We didn’t have nightmares,’ writes Lidia Maksymowicz of the 13 months she spent in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, from 1943 to 1945, aged from three to almost five, ‘because nightmares walked with us at every…