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Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their ‘crime’ that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children’s block where she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity.

Lidia Maksymowicz ist drei Jahre alt, als sie mit ihrer Mutter in das Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert wird. Dreizehn Monate lang überlebt sie in dieser Hölle, getrennt von ihrer Mutter, in der Kinderbaracke. Sie ist eines der kleinen "Versuchskaninchen" von Dr. Josef Mengele, der seine lebensbedrohlichen "Experimente" an ihr durchführt. Lidia sieht, wie die anderen Kindern nach und nach sterben, an den Folgen der Experimente, am Hunger.

"Quando vado da Mengele vengo addormentata, per cui quando esco non ricordo esattamente cosa sia accaduto. Mi sveglio ed è il mio corpo a parlare e a raccontarmi." Lidia Maksymowicz aveva tre anni quando è entrata assieme a sua madre nel campo di concentramento di Auschwitz-Birkenau. E per tredici mesi è sopravvissuta in quell’inferno, nella baracca dei bambini: una delle piccole "cavie" degli esperimenti del dottor Josef Mengele.