On the occasion of the commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Centro Sefarad-Israel is telling the story of Moshé Haelión, Sephardi survivor of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, this afternoon at 19hrs in its headquarters at the Palacio de Cañete.
Moshé Haelión was just sixteen years old when Hitler’s troops marched into Salonica (Thessaloniki), the city where he was born. Moshé was sent to Auschwitz along with his mother and sister but he lost them as soon as he arrived in the camp. In Auschwitz he suffered the longest 21 months of his life, although he still had to pass through a further three concentration camps. In his own words; “the hunger, the work, the uncertainty of not knowing from one minute to the next if you would stay alive or if they had decided to murder me, made that place the worst of hells”.
